ChipsThe Registerabout 3 hours ago
Arm64 on the desktop? It's spendy and it's sluggish
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A Red Hat build engineer spent €1,800 on an Ampere Altra Arm64 workstation but switched back to an AMD Ryzen 5 3600. The 80-core Arm64 powerhouse was outperformed by a six-core $199 chip from 2019, ending the AArch64 desktop experiment.
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