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Lion Cove: Intel's P-Core Roars
Intel’s mobile CPUs have undergone massive changes over the past couple generations as Intel defends its laptop market against AMD, Qualcomm, and to a lesser extent Apple. Meteor Lake adopted…
P-Cores aim to deliver maximum per-thread performance, an important metric in client designs where responsiveness is vital and many programs don’t scale across many cores. In AMD’s favor, cores from the Zen line don’t suffer a significant penalty when a floating point multiply with normalized inputs generates a denormal output. Latency slightly regresses if the load is contained within a store but addresses don’t match exactly, but that shouldn’t be common unless you’re dealing with network packets or something.
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