News World's fastest Arm PC put to the test — 128-core Ampere Altra Max CPU claims 128-core Cinebench 2024 world record

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Maker and influencer Jeff Geerling describes the recently released Thelio Astra from System76 as 'the fastest Arm desktop computer in the world.'

World's fastest Arm PC put to the test — 128-core Ampere Altra Max CPU claims 128-core Cinebench 2024 world record : Read more

 

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It's cool that you can do this, but the Ampere Altra is really getting quite dated, by this point. It just doesn't doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you absolutely need an ARM-based system and have a highly-threaded workload, like doing compilation & testing (or so-called continuous integration).

For the $7k configuration tested, you could build a nice Threadripper system that would be way faster in lightly-threaded tasks and still outpace that Altra Max at most heavily-threaded stuff. That's because Altra Max uses basically the same vintage cores as Rasperry Pi 5.