Robert Williams (crispysilicon.delete@this.gmail.com) on April 8, 2021 7:50 pm wrote:
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> If you still have your results, might not be a bad idea to take another look come next generation
> just for comparison? Sapphire Rapids is supposed to add TSX suspend load address tracking
> according to the manual.

Honestly, I'm done with Intel's market fragmentation crap with Xeon CPU's having features that the normal consumer CPU's don't.

So I won't even bother to try TSX until it's in a CPU in a machine that is worth getting, and not some stratospherically priced Xeon thing.

Right now Intel has nothing that is even remotely competitive in the Xeon space. Maybe Sapphire Rapids makes a difference (the claimed on-package 64GB HBM DRAM certainly sounds interesting, and likely a lot more important than any uarch tweak). But Intel had better also change their pricing strategy for it to be something I'd be personally interested in.

I hope that AMD's success will make Intel actually take a hard look at its marketing (and tech side too, for that matter), but I'll believe it when I see it.

Linus