single thread performance is still king.
Always will be, because it scales across core count. And that's where Alder Lake starts getting
very misty.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for progress and if big little delivers that, +1. But again... don't mistake a canned bench or synthetics for real world usage. Its not the same thing and as processor tech has to keep reaching higher to show fruit of new developments, you need an ever more detailed set of tests to determine what's really happening.
Bursting through a Cinebench load isn't really indicative of sustained performance, and the question is how much more bursty you want the CPUs for short term loads. Sustained is where its at for the use cases where the performance is truly needed.
Its the same metric we held Ryzen 1 to, even if its multicore perf was miles ahead, the single thread was lacking, and in certain use cases the extra cores wouldn't fix that lack of performance either - for example in high FPS gaming. Alder Lake is on the other end of the spectrum really, where its multicore perf is, perhaps not quite what you'd expect. Let alone the potential problems with scheduling and core allocation.
One thing is crystal clear to me though, the Alder Lake stack is a bit of a mess, but still much better suited than Ryzen going beyond 8 physical cores for MSDT. At the same time, the only
reason Intel has is its own lack of node progress
