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Journalism is a crucial part for a free world.
Passmark is clearly going to have to do a security pass on its CPU information now to make this at least a little bit harder!
Don't publish benchmarks until a few data points for the same model come in from different sources, and are roughly the same?
Or do you think journalists are going to wait for ‘peer review’ for their breaking news?
> A weeks ago, my friends and I were talking about the inner workings of Zen 5. We were talking about how the CPUID instruction works, and how AMD MSRs are technically editable if you ask the processor nicely. As do we all.
I don't know about your friends, but as we're on HN, I'm sure others here have friends like mine, who absolutely have conversations about how the low level shit that facilitates our world works.
So it goes: unintentional data leak. Data leak pipeline becomes common knowledge. Then manipulation. "New CPU in Passmark" news has become so regular, I've long since assumed that they are not leaks at all, but intentional product hype. EXIF metadata is editable, too. Similar that it could be useful intelligence, but it is very easy to deceive others with it.
The mainstream journalism about this was actually pretty good
> A weeks ago, my friends and I were talking about the inner workings of Zen 5. We were talking about how the CPUID instruction works, and how AMD MSRs are technically editable if you ask the processor nicely. As do we all.
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You can likely put a 5800X3D or 5700X3D in the same motherboard and get a massive performance upgrade
5700X3D is great for gaming, but for programming 5900XT will be nicer. You can run make -j32 :)
I hope I'm never working on a project where -j32 on a 5900XT is noticeably faster than than -j16 on a 5700X3D.
Then again, -j1 is nice, when you need to time a break. (https://xkcd.com/303/)
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Let me try one: Software is trash and programmers are happy to lie about anything if they have the smallest amount of plausible deniability. See how you sound?
I would stand behind:
Everything is trash and everyone is happy to lie about anything if they have the smallest amount of plausible deniability.
The two articles I saw about this both emphasized that the high clock speed (from the PBO) was inconsistent with the name of the CPU that implied it would be lower performance than the 9800X3D.
Most of the sites I check regularly have been pretty good about calling out inconsistent leaks or rumors, contrary to the “all journalism is trash” comments down below. On the other hand, if you were following someone who presented this singular benchmark result as proof of something without looking at the details, it might be a good time to reconsider the quality of your sources. I did see some lazy Twitter personalities parroting the result without any actual thought.