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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The thing folks at the low-end are mostly missing out on is performance, which is dominated by combined L1 + L2 + L3 + SLC on-package caches, with process-shrink-driven frequency scaling not far behind:
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- By Dec 2024, a fast-ish Android had finally shipped. (remote)
- Yes, you're reading that right. Apple *has* been trouncing everyone else in single-core performance for a decade by adding several multiples of everyone else's combined cache allocations for die space. Just an unbelievable drubbing. (remote)
- Cores and frequencies don't mean squat when it comes to mobile phones. The action is all in the amount of die space allocated to caches. (remote)
