| ▲ | willtemperley 4 days ago | |
You’re contradicting yourself. The whole reason x86 burns more power is that the CISC front end can’t be avoided. | ||
| ▲ | userbinator 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
That was disproved 11 years ago: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188396-the-final-isa-sho... The CISC decoder is like a "decompressor" that saves memory bandwidth and cache usage. | ||
| ▲ | wqaatwt 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Are there any mid-high end RISC-V chips that have comparable performance per watt to x86? | ||