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Originally Posted by freeloadingbum
Wow! That makes the cascade's performance even more impressive when you consider it has a "Whole lotta nothing goin on"  |
If it were economically viable to produce a block that is explicitly tuned for a particular CPU die, and not worry about when people upgrade their CPU's, then it would be possible to do even substantially better than what the Cascade is doing.
That is another trade-off that I admittedly made.
This is another aspect to consider when people start tuning around a test-bed. It's like certain graphics companies that go around tuning their drivers for a specific benchmark, cutting corners and removing absolutely anything at all that is superfluous to the demands of the testbed/benchmark.
There can undoubtedly be a situation of something performing brilliantly under a single very tightly defined scenario and significantly less well for other test cases vs a case of performing almost as well across a wide range of scenarios.
Speaking of which - my machinists just informed me that the Cascade XXX (with customisable cooling zones) has been coded up and they're about to run it on the CNC mill pending my approval, for which I'm about to head out the door and have a look...*clicks heels*