Rumor: Intel Meteor Lake Will Have Up to 14-Core CPUs, No i9 Planned – Computing – News

Due to the separation of “Performance” cores and “Efficiency” cores in a CPU, enabling/disabling cores and selling the CPU as an inferior model is no longer as obvious as it used to be, when there was no difference between cores. .

If too many “E” cores are broken, well-functioning “P” cores are still useless. It works the other way too.

Then I hear you say, but then Intel only sells the “failures” even cheaper? They could, but then unreliable CPUs will hit the market, which violates Intel’s image, and you’ll see that the budget buyer would rather bet on the “failures” than opt for the slightly more expensive reliable CPU model. Because there is always a success story with “failures” on the internet and that creates too high expectations. So Intel cuts itself at least twice in the fingers.

If you want to make a good impression as a CPU manufacturer, you should at least have comparable CPUs in different price ranges as your direct competitor. If the Youtuber of this article is right, then it’s a minor mistake by Intel.

Manage nearly 40 computers with Intel and AMD processors. Both have their pros and cons. I’m very happy with both, but when push comes to shove, my preference is for AMD. Anyway, gaming hasn’t really interested me that much in a long time and in my (not so objective) opinion AMD fares better when it comes to multi-core. This interests me then.

But other than that they don’t differ much from each other. I measure how much the systems absorb from the wall in Watts, I take the consumption specifications as a notification. The low numbers on the data sheet are therefore of little value to me. The results of my measurements actually often give a completely different picture than the data sheets promise. To date, the difference between AMD and Intel systems is minimal. Especially if there is no video or (very) “light” card in the system.