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Single core performance? All i'm seeing is the confirmation that independently parallalizable tasks finish twice as fast on a cpu with twice the cores. cool, amdahl's law is proven. The handbrake one, all the times seems similar indicating similar single core perf. This matters for me since single core perf is pretty important for visual studio/other software with alot going on feeling "snappy" even tho the actual co…
Single core should be not much worse than Ryzen.
"One big disparity between the three machines was the Zen 4 machine was outfitted with 512GB of memory, while its competition had just 128GB each" This feels like cheating to me.
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Yep seems about the same single thread wise which is a bit weird since 7950x3d base clock is 4.2 whereas the 7995wx is 2.5. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5726vs5234vs3862/AMD-Ry...
Single threaded tasks should never run at the base clock. The base clock can pretty much be thought of as the minimum clock speed you should see when all cores are maxed out and the thermal solution is only just meeting the spec.
Single core performance? All i'm seeing is the confirmation that independently parallalizable tasks finish twice as fast on a cpu with twice the cores. cool, amdahl's law is proven. The handbrake one, all the times seems similar indicating similar single core perf. This matters for me since single core perf is pretty important for visual studio/other software with alot going on feeling "snappy" even tho the actual co…
I run simulations that are inherently completely single-threaded and I lean on Geekbench which tend to be a good predictor for me. As far as I can tell, Intel still holds the crown in absolute ST perf, granted at horrific efficiencies: https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks/ (be sure to ignore the "Top Single-Core Results" which AFAICT is full of BS numbers). Intel's latest 14900K isn't there yet, but should be a smidgen faster: https://www.techspot.com/news/100034-intel-core-i9-14900k-to...
Single core performance? All i'm seeing is the confirmation that independently parallalizable tasks finish twice as fast on a cpu with twice the cores. cool, amdahl's law is proven. The handbrake one, all the times seems similar indicating similar single core perf. This matters for me since single core perf is pretty important for visual studio/other software with alot going on feeling "snappy" even tho the actual co…
Yes, but if you can squeeze more cores in the same space (and/or power) envelope, and not suffer a performance per core penalty, you're winning.
"One big disparity between the three machines was the Zen 4 machine was outfitted with 512GB of memory, while its competition had just 128GB each" This feels like cheating to me.
Why? Extra RAM has no effect on most types of performance.
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Single threaded tasks should never run at the base clock. The base clock can pretty much be thought of as the minimum clock speed you should see when all cores are maxed out and the thermal solution is only just meeting the spec.
I still want my computer to remain responsive even when I'm rendering in the background.
"One big disparity between the three machines was the Zen 4 machine was outfitted with 512GB of memory, while its competition had just 128GB each" This feels like cheating to me.
They had to give the Eypc 4 more RAM to populate all its RAM channels. I've read it has 12 channels of DDR5.
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Why? Extra RAM has no effect on most types of performance.
These chips have 8 channel ram, so you need at least 8 sticks to get full ram bandwidth.
With smaller sticks, they could populate all the channels while keeping total memory capacity the same as other setups. I don't see why they had to splurge all the way up to 512GB.
"One big disparity between the three machines was the Zen 4 machine was outfitted with 512GB of memory, while its competition had just 128GB each" This feels like cheating to me.
They're testing CPU performance, not memory capacity. They need that much for the channels.