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> will feature a higher all-core Turbo frequency when it has sufficient cooling

Real world performance needs to be seen, but this feels like a stunt to grab headlines and direct some attention away from AMD hammering them relentlessly.

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I am sure AMD appreciates a little breathing room to work on the issue that roughly half of Ryzen 3 CPU's are unable to reach advertised frequencies.

...by incredibly small amounts that have little to no measurable impact on performance. I'm not defending it, it's just such a hilariously overblown issue compared to how bad Intel's gaff is here..

I mean, it takes only a minimum of tinfoil-hatting to see the teacup-storm of the Ryzen frequency issues as a ploy by Intel. If true, this wouldn't be the first time they've resorted to journalistic skullduggey.

Whatever Intel's failings may be, their media/marketing department is (and has, at least as long as I've been building computers, been) far superior to AMD's.

"advertised frequencies" is a very interesting term these days, Intel obviously delivered its "advertised frequencies" but with all those security patches, the performance hit on Intel processors are up to 30% [1], which is believed to be 5x higher [2] than the impacts on AMD processors.

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/77026-windows-update-reduce-sp... [2] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/05/20/228218/intel-pe...

My Ryzen 3900X has absolutely storming performance despite this supposed problem. I can compile full featured qemu for one target arch in 19 seconds.

Meanwhile I'm retiring an Intel Xeon server that has slowed down so much it's become unusable (for my purposes) because of Spectre mitigations.

Whoa, sounds like it makes it possible to have a Gentoo install that's nice to use.

This was a bios bug and not an inherent limitation of the CPU.

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