AMD is already planning not only 20% YoY performance improvements for x86 but now has 30x efficiency plan for 2025.
I think x86 is in it for much longer than a decade.
Intel otoh, depends on if they can gut all the MBAs infesting them.
Intel otoh, depends on if they can gut all the MBAs infesting them.
For general purpose compute, so such luck unfortunately. Performance and efficiency follows process technology to a first order approximation.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-increase-efficiency-of...
But 5x average performance gain at the same TDP doesn't mean you do 32x as much computation for the same amount of power. Except in AMD marketing world. But it sounds good!
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15881/amd-succeeds-in-its-25x...
Like, even bearing in mind that that's coming from a Bulldozer derivative on GF 32nm (which is probably more like Intel 40nm) 5x gain in actual computation efficiency is still a lot, and it's actually even more in CPU-based workloads, but AMD marketing can't help but stretch the truth with these "challenges".
it's possible that the implication here is similar, that AMD does a tensor accelerator or something and they hit "30x" but you end up with similar speedups to NVIDIA's tensor accelerator implementation.
In a compute focused cloud environment you might be able to have most of your hardware pegged by compute most of the time, but outside of that CPUs spend most of their time either very far under 100% capacity, or totally idle.
In order to actually calculate real efficiency gains you'd probably have to measure power usage under various scenarios though, not just whatever weird math they did here.
I can't see any possible charitable explanation for this stupidity. MBAs and marketing department run amok.
Have to see if they can not only catch up, but keep up.