Comment by treprinum

7940HS in my 4090 laptop is cool, though I am worried about the future starting with Phoenix 2 that will feature few good cores (Zen 5) and many crappy cores (Zen 5c). Not sure why AMD had to ape a failing Intel arch here that was introduced only to improve Intel's multicore benchmarks. Now with AMD we will get all the "heterogenous goodies" when programs keep running into weird states due to scheduler not being 100% in its core allocations. Even if 5c's only difference is in the smaller cache and slower AVX-512, this could bite in unpredictable ways. Moreover, if AMD really needed to go with this hybrid design, why not ape Apple M1 or M2 with only 2 or 4 crappy cores?