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		willtemperley 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryz... You’re contradicting yourself. The whole reason x86 burns more power is that the CISC front end can’t be avoided.

userbinator 3 months ago | [–]

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 3 months ago | [–]

Are there any mid-high end RISC-V chips that have comparable performance per watt to x86?

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