By: Foo_ (foo.delete@this.nomail.com), May 5, 2012 3:14 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 5/4/12 wrote:
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>>Not really. They have a part that beats Medfield. That's totally different from
>>competing with Bobcat or Llano, and quite different from competing with Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge.
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>Cortex-A9 is already getting close to Bobcat performance, eg. from openbenchmarking.org:
"close" == twice slower, for you?
>Since both Krait and A15 are quite a bit faster they will easily outperform even
>the fastest current Bobcats. So they are not competing indeed, but outclassing Bobcat.
Of course, and AMD will stand still and stop improving its chips.
>The only area where Bobcat would still win is the GPU side.
Which is *by design*, if you look at respective die areas taken by the CPU and GPU parts. Bobcat as a CPU is rather weak by x86 standards.
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>>Not really. They have a part that beats Medfield. That's totally different from
>>competing with Bobcat or Llano, and quite different from competing with Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge.
>
>Cortex-A9 is already getting close to Bobcat performance, eg. from openbenchmarking.org:
"close" == twice slower, for you?
>Since both Krait and A15 are quite a bit faster they will easily outperform even
>the fastest current Bobcats. So they are not competing indeed, but outclassing Bobcat.
Of course, and AMD will stand still and stop improving its chips.
>The only area where Bobcat would still win is the GPU side.
Which is *by design*, if you look at respective die areas taken by the CPU and GPU parts. Bobcat as a CPU is rather weak by x86 standards.
