Thursday, October 23, 2014 8:02:58 PM
Bay Trail and A7 are pretty comparable designs. The former wins in MT, and is slightly behind in ST. Graphics performance of Bay Trail is slightly behind A7 in GfxBench, yet slightly ahead in GFXBench. Yet I've noticed that many of your posts are skewed in a way that leans towards "Intel Sux", when the data says otherwise.
A8X is a very nice design, and advances Apple's position. But it's also a more aggressive design, at ~3B transistors. The 20nm process makes it manufacturable as a mobile SOC - but it doesn't take much to extrapolate a die size of 120-130 mm2, which is on the high side for mobile SOC's. Hard to imagine pushing the envelope much further. A 4B or 6B design without a process node shrink (which is still a couple of years out, with 16FF+), wouldn't even fit in existing form factors.
Intel could build a larger Atom product, but it's unclear what business prospects they have for chasing Apple in 10" designs. The market seems to have plenty more volume either below that in minis and phablets, or above that in small form factor PC's. Broadwell is a better chip for small form factor PC's, and it should do well. Intel undershot a bit with Silvermont core, but Cherry Trail will build on the momentum of Bay Trail and probably pick up more volume in the mid-range.
You're one to give Intel hell for thermal characteristics, but nVidia gets a Free Pass? You probably missed the abundant heat problems on Tegra K1-32 on the graphics side, which I'm sure K1-64 inherited. Maybe a dual core CPU with high ST performance is a better trade off for mobile, but Bay Trail holds its own in MT. Denver runs at 2.5GHz, by the way, and a 7-way superscalar pipeline. Where do they go from here? Wider, or faster? Solve the technical problem with more complicated software, or by pushing the thermal envelope...? Cherry Trail should offer similar MT and Gfx performance, but at lower power.
I don't know what the size of the market is, but my point is that Intel has a pretty nice hedge. If the market for small form factor PC's is small or zero, then Intel is protected and completely out of reach in a 15-95W bastion of PC performance. If, on the other hand, the market is trending towards fanless designs in PC form factors, then Core M will protect Intel from ARM encroachment.
Oh, brother... you say "performance sux", even though it trashes anything else. Why aren't the OEM's fauning over Denver, instead of build innovating 2-in-1 machines based on Core M? Are you going to change your argument of "Core is too expensive" to "Intel is giving them away"?
The other two statements are true. U-series runs at higher power, and delivers better performance. Atom is designed to be lower cost than Core, and competes in price with ARM. It's a great business strategy - what's your problem with it?
If you're going to run a benchmark like SysMark, then you have to expect the CPU to be running in Turbo mode most of the time. SysMark tests burst scenarios, and includes simulated wait states, as if an end-user were interacting with the PC. Even Haswell-Y running SDP power can achieve Turbo mode operation for burst scenarios. It's a best-case scenario for Haswell.
I'd expect something on the order of 10-20% IPC improvement, but a disproportionate amount of performance per watt improvement at low power. I think Intel is still moving the needle to the left in terms of power optimization point. I'd like to see Skylake at ~5W exceed Haswell at 15W - not just delivering 2.x GHz speeds in burst scenarios, but also sustainably in much more active scenarios. Ideally, it would look something like this (for top bin):
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/1083343?baseline=1080011
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