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Comment by magicalhippo

6 months ago

For stuff like path tracing you have to work very hard not to trash the caches, so you're often just waiting for memory.

That's why such workloads gets a near linear scaling when using hyper-threads, unlike workloads like LLMs which are memory bandwidth bound.

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