[GTALUG] AMD releases 3100 and 3300x

[Dave Collier-Brown]

On 2020-05-09 5:41 p.m., Nicholas Krause via talk wrote:
Its nice to see 4 cores become mainstream.  A lot of programs don't take advantage of the
extra threads if you look into it. Actually most desktop programs don't scale pass 2 fast
cores including video games. With 4 cores being mainstream and at a low price it will
be nice to see software especially for the desktop start to be written more with 4 and more
cores in mind. Hopefully this does happen but I'm assuming it will take a few years or so.

In an earlier life, we noticed a huge increase in usability going from a single core to a dual-core processor in desktop SPARCs. Having two processors available to respond to a request means way more that you'd expect in responsiveness. Somewhat underpowered workstations felt as if they were big multiprocessors.

Joyce noticed, and bought me a "Tadpole" UltraSPARC-1c laptop for a birthday present.

--dave

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