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CCouncilorIrissa replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Because it's just a different physdes, the core still has plenty of execution resources, unlike -monts that are designed to ppa-maxx...
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CCouncilorIrissa replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.It's an irrrelevant market. Very few people want/need more cores or threads. Intel wouldn't be forced to drop 265KF to $230 to sell a...
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CCouncilorIrissa replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.day 9592 of anandtech posters pretending there's a mythical workload that scales infinitely with cores, while not giving a crap about...
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CI just can't imagine anyone but the cinebench graphers buying a 48 core CPU on 2 channel memory in 2026/7. Unless Intel does some...
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CCouncilorIrissa replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.This has little to do with cores lol and everything to do with AMD paying a constant 20-25W penalty due to an antiquated IOD (which they...
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CCouncilorIrissa reacted to MS_AT's post in the thread Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes Discussion Threads with
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SMT is a trick to increase utilization of backend resources. If the code in question is able to fully utilize backend resources with... -
CCouncilorIrissa replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.Troester, huh? edit: nvm, just saw the post above
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CCouncilorIrissa reacted to Doug S's post in the thread Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread with Like.
What part about "Apple's CPUs beat anything AMD makes in both performance AND power" do you not get? A "vanity" project would be one...
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CCouncilorIrissa reacted to mmaenpaa's post in the thread Discussion AMD SoC Halo series GPU discussion with Love.
I will soon find out, I just ordered one. HP ZBook Ultra G1a Mobile Workstation - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ - 395 / jopa 5.1 GHz - Win 11 Pro -...
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CCouncilorIrissa reacted to Kepler_L2's post in the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread with Like.
No one is using 75mm² of N2P silicon for CPUs just to run games at 30/60 FPS.
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CCouncilorIrissa replied to the thread Discussion Intel Nova Lake in H2-2026: Discussion Threads.X3D is anything but a CB destroyer, yet people are somehow still buying 8 cores at $480, that's almost twice the price of a discounted...
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CThe Xbox Series X SoC was massive - 360 mm^2. At that size you get 156 19x19mm dies, and even with very mature yields you'd be lucky to...
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CCouncilorIrissa reacted to Thunder 57's post in the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread with Like.
Microsoft (and Sony) do make money on 3rd party games sold on their platform. That's been a thing since forever. Makes me question...
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CCouncilorIrissa reacted to Thunder 57's post in the thread Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000) with Like.
That's some revisionist history if I've ever heard it. A quick look at launch MSRP's alone shows how off you are.
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CCouncilorIrissa replied to the thread Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread.N7 (well, technically N6, which the consoles got ported to anyway) was the last shrink with gains in $/xtor. That's no longer the case...
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