So this is probably really stupid, but why, for a company such as AMD, cant they make a CPU similar to the 3970x but with 8 or so big cores with improved performance? I keep seeing insane core counts from them, but I don’t quite get why they can’t make really good single-core performance.
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There’s a whole host of reasons, heat production, physical limitation to addressing, bandwidth to each core, etc.
Basically, if each core has its own addressing, it gets it’s own data pipes, its own RAM, etc. One giant core would still be limited to what a single core could address, you’d also run into limits of thermodynamics. Power consumption would be off the scale, and there would be bottlenecks all over the place.
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