Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? POWER8 vs Intel i9-12900K Showdown
A Tale of Two Philosophies: When 160 Threads Meet Modern Silicon I have a problem. I see weird computer hardware on eBay, and I buy it. Last year’s victim: an IBM POWER8 S822LC server from 2015. Cost: $50. Shipping: $200. The look on my partner’s face when it arrived: priceless. Everyone told me it was a relic, a curiosity, basically e-waste with RGB lights (okay, it doesn’t have RGB, but it should). But staring at those specs—160 hardware threads via SMT-8—I couldn’t help but wonder: could raw, embarrassing parallelism compete with modern single-thread supremacy? ...