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AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space

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499 points baal80spam | 1 comments | 05 Nov 24 19:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gautamcgoel ◴[05 Nov 24 20:46 UTC] No.42055008[source]▶
Damn, first Intel missed out on Mobile, then it fumbled AI, and now it's being seriously challenged on its home turf. Pat has his work cut out for him.
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cheema33 ◴[05 Nov 24 21:19 UTC] No.42055260[source]▶
Intel has come back recently with a new series of "Lunar Lake" CPUs for laptops. They are actually very good. For now, Intel has regained the crown for Windows laptops.

Maybe Pat has lit the much needed fire under them.

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hollandheese ◴[05 Nov 24 21:44 UTC] No.42055446[source]▶
Snapdragon X Plus/Elite is still faster and has better battery life. Lunar Lake does have a better GPU and of course better compatibility.
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1. hajile ◴[05 Nov 24 22:10 UTC] No.42055626[source]▶
X Elite is faster, but not enough to offset the software incompatibility or dealing with the GPU absolutely sucking.

Unfortunately for Intel, X Elite was a bad CPU that has been fixed with Snapdragon 8 Elite's update. The core uses a tiny fraction of the power of X Elite (way less than the N3 node shrink would offer). The core also got a bigger frontend and a few other changes which seem to have updated IPC.

Qualcomm said they are leading in performance per area and I believe it is true. Lunar Lake's P-core is over 2x as large (2.2mm2 vs 4.5mm2) and Zen5 is nearly 2x as large too at 4.2mm2 (Even Zen5c is massively bigger at 3.1mm2).

X Elite 2 will either be launching with 8 Elite's core or an even better variant and it'll be launching quite a while before Panther Lake.