They look good — but not necessarily “playable” yet?
      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        7 months ago

        To be fair, x86 was held back a long while when intel was the dominant market force without competition. And arm is starting to stagnate too, even apple have not meaningfully improved their arm-based cpus since the m1

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      7 months ago

      Doesn’t surprise me. AMD had internally designed ARM CPUs years ago with Jim Keller.

      This was when AMD was facing bankruptcy, though. Cutbacks had to be made, and ARM was one of them. They focused on Zen instead.

      Now that they have money I’m not surprised at all they’re giving it another swing.

      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        7 months ago

        ARM is not a GPU-architecture, but a competitor to x86, which is what intel and AMD are basing their CPUs on. Through a very confusing web of patents and deals, only those two corporations are able to use it. ARM was developed to be slimmer than x86, but only recently cought up in performance, while retaining an advantage in efficiency. They’re not compatible with each other though, which is why apple had to create an emulation layer for x86 software when they switched from intel to arm for their cpus. Microsoft will (and have) need to do the same thing, but it’s not clear yet what performance will look like for things like gaming. Microsoft largely want to make windows on arm a thing for battery life and so that they can create their own processors.

        • Aermis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          How does x64 architecture play in this? I that x86 was out dated and not used. Something about fat32 and ntfs hard drives? Man I know so little of computers even thought I’ve been tinkering with them most of my life.

          • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            7 months ago

            AMD-64 is an upgrade to x86 that allows it to work with (I think) 64 Bit lntegers. The most obvious consequence is the jump from being able to use 4GB of RAM to whatever absurd number 64Bit are able to handle