6GHz is the new target for CPUs - Intel's Raptor Lake may reach 5.8 GHz

[WYP]

Forget 5GHz. The race is now on to reach 6GHz.



Read more about Intel's Raptor Lake processors.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Let them get it. Will still make no sense as it'll consume double the power than AMDs flagship. That alone makes it a no go for me.

 

[Dark NighT]

Yep total waste of effort, i'd rather see a way better IPC and lower clocks to get to this level of performance instead of just brute forcing high clocks to beat past the competition.

 

[AlienALX]

Yep total waste of effort, i'd rather see a way better IPC and lower clocks to get to this level of performance instead of just brute forcing high clocks to beat past the competition.

Firstly they are not brute forcing the clocks. You can't force something to do what it is not capable of doing. As for doing it to get past the competition? don't you remember the AMD Centurion? even at 5ghz it was balls.

The big thing is whether it actually helps. Like, will IPC improve per clock. I would imagine so, given they are instructions per clock, but whether it will be worth the power consumption remains to be seen.

I can absolutely bet you now that if AMD could clock their chips to those speeds they would, power consumption be damned. Mostly because they did it before.

Like I said, the scaling remains to be seen. However, if this was just pump? then AMD would have nothing with the big Navi GPUs. Fact is that clock speed does help to make them really fast.

I mean really if anything we should be expecting higher clocks. We've reached parity on cores now and we're no longer being screwed by a monopoly so clock speeds is the next logical step, given that they are what has lagged behind most due to die shrinks.

 

[grassman]

I mean really if anything we should be expecting higher clocks. We've reached parity on cores now and we're no longer being screwed by a monopoly so clock speeds is the next logical step, given that they are what has lagged behind most due to die shrinks.

Yeah in 1999

 

[dazbobaby]

Didn't Linus just push the 12900K to 450Watts? And that was 2 cores only at 5.5ghz.


There will always be some people who, planet be damned, will buy the absolute best they can because they have the money.


Let them, they're helping to fund further developments. A bit like motor racing. Eventually new technology trickles down to mid-range guys like me at prices I like.

 

[mazty]

I mean really if anything we should be expecting higher clocks. We've reached parity on cores now and we're no longer being screwed by a monopoly so clock speeds is the next logical step, given that they are what has lagged behind most due to die shrinks.

There has been little in the way of speed increases is due to literal physics. The design & materials they use aren't able to really breach the 6GHz barrier on just air cooling. Sure, 8GHz speeds have been hit before, but temporarily and using exotic cooling e.g. LN2.

This is why multi-core became the solution as opposed to faster, single core CPUs.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

There has been little in the way of speed increases is due to literal physics. The design & materials they use aren't able to really breach the 6GHz barrier on just air cooling. Sure, 8GHz speeds have been hit before, but temporarily and using exotic cooling e.g. LN2.

This is why multi-core became the solution as opposed to faster, single core CPUs.

Yeah, this is my understanding as well. The whole reason Zen and all its successors has been so successful is for the exact reason that it used everything OTHER than clock speed to gain performance. It added cores, it added cache, it improved IPC, it improved latency in the interconnects, it improved efficiency. Adding really high clock speeds is not the logical next step; improving the architectures in other areas is.