• Michal@programming.dev
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    6 hours ago

    PCs aren’t faster, they have more cores, so they can do more at a time, but it takes effort to optimize for parallel work. Also the form factor keeps getting smaller, more people use laptops now and you can’t cheat thermal efficiency.

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      4 hours ago

      It’s all about memory latency and bandwidth now which has improved greatly PC’s are still getting faster. There is a new RAM standards being pushed right now CAMM2 is really exciting it pushes back the need for soldered memory.

      • Kairos@lemmy.today
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        1 hour ago

        The faster single core out of order execution performance on newer x86 CPUs lets it work on that higher bandwidth of data too.