AMD Ryzen 8000G to launch end of January Gigabyte spoils AMD plans, confirms upcoming Ryzen 8000G series launch date. The open secret is now even more open. The most recent updates to AGESA for AMD 600-series motherboards are indeed meant to support next-gen AMD desktop APUs. Gigabyte has just confirmed that the AM5 socket will […]
2c + 4c and 1c + 3c?
Is that a big.LITTLE approach for multitasking?
Kind of. The Zen 4c cores aren’t really “LITTLE”, in the sense that they provide the same performance at the same clock speed, and can only reach lower clocks. When all cores are running together clocks drop anyway, so it’s not a big difference from having only Zen 4 cores.
It’s not completely the same, and for high power desktop chips there will likely be a difference, but it’s still nowhere near what Intel is doing with its P and E cores, and what ARM is doing in mobile.
Neat, thanks