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Captain_Yuri said:

[Rumour] AMD 3nm Zen5 APUs codenamed “Strix Pointâ€Â rumored to feature big.LITTLE cores

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-3nm-zen5-apus-codenamed-strix-point-rumored-to-feature-big-little-cores

If true, it sounds like both Intel and AMD will be going big.LITTLE for their future cpus. We will see if AMD will limit it to APUs only or if they will go all out like Intel is doing with their future desktop cpus.

The bigger question is: What would AMD use as LITTLE cores? Bulldozer and Bobcat are both dead, buried and composted, and apart from Zen they don't have anything else on the CPU market right now.

4 possibilities:

1. They develop their own Atom-like chips. Doubtful considering the gains are in no relation to the losses on Atom in terms of power draw and performance.
2. They cut down Zen with less cache and possibly other subtle changes within the chips. The question is if they would really gain much on the power draw here...
3. They use some die-shrinked Zen chips of older generations for the LITTLE cores. IMO the most logical way to go right now.
4. They reactivate Project K2 and use special ARM cores for the LITTLE ones. Doubtful, and unsure if a mix of 2 architectures at the same time would work well - or at all. 

Captain_Yuri said:

ASUS to unveil its Intel Tiger Lake-H laptops on May 11th

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-to-unveil-its-intel-tiger-lake-h-laptops-on-may-11th

I am certainly looking forward to Tiger Lake H before purchasing a new laptop. Should be a beast as it's based on 10nm.

The problem is that Tiger Lake pulls too much power. At 45W TDP they cannot fully utilize all the cores. 28W brings a huge boost in singe-core performance over 15W on TL with just 4 cores, but the same is not the case on Renoir or Cezanne U series chips. So at 45W, if all the cores are in use, then the chip will have to clock down to run that program.

Don't get me wrong, it will be a big boost over what they have, but I seriously doubt that Cezanne is in any danger in fully multithreaded applications - the gap is just too great. Games, on the other hand...

Well it's for Zen 5 and 3nm. If they can get huge leaps in 7nm, I wouldn't doubt that zen 4 and zen 5 will also be huge leaps as well. So those small cores could be quite powerful for today's standards and the big cores could be hugely powerful. Like if you look at say the Apple's M1, those small cores aren't exactly anything to scoff at so I could see AMD going the same route. So probably option 3.

And yea, we will see how Tiger Lake performs but I am mainly buying it for mobile gaming as I'd use my 5950x if I am doing something that requires lots of threads. Of course if Tiger Lake laptops battery life continues to be as bad as 10th gen, then I might choose Ryzen as well.