sirmo
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It is pretty hard for someone to pull a fake result out of their arse, when there is valid information included that hasn't been previously leaked.
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It is pretty hard for someone to pull a fake result out of their arse, when there is valid information included that hasn't been previously leaked.
LoL - yeah it's a possibility. But if I am not mistaken now AMD show to have a CPU with more cores than Intel - even if it is barely runningSo I guess the process is:
1. Acquire AMD ES CPU
2. Short AMD
3. Cripple L3 Cache, lock at base clock
4. Post terrible benchmark
5. Profit
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Hard to believe that L3 would account for > 43% difference to Haswell thou![]()
If the L3 cache is really disabled, I find this difference completely believable. With no L3, the chip would have only 512kB of effective data cache. There are several subtests which would not fit in this, but would fit in a few-MB cache. The performance difference in these subtests should not be ~50%, it should be something like 400%.
Of course, the lack of L3 might just be GB reporting error.
It is obvious the scores are way too low hence it makes no sense to try and draw any conclusions on Zen based on them.
ST looks OK if you assume Turbo was off and the cores ran at fixed base clock.Multithreaded score looks too low, but single core score looks reasonable.
ST looks OK if you assume Turbo was off and the cores ran at fixed base clock.
Well ST score if it was achieved at 1.4Ghz is OK I suppose (~16% behind Broadwell EP per clock). MT score is just awful for some reason.
NO............So basically the IPC will be lower so in the hope of making up for it, they will tack on more cores which will ramp up the TDP? That sounds somewhat familiar.
So basically the IPC will be lower so in the hope of making up for it, they will tack on more cores which will ramp up the TDP? That sounds somewhat familiar.
Interesting. My first thought was that RAM gimping would be the easiest way to post low results (a tried a true tactic when we look at OEMs and APUs). But I looked at that Corsair article and it seemed like the numbers were reasonable.Other than this the fact that MT bandwith is lower than ST bandwith is an indication that the RAM frequency was drastically reduced for the MT test
However I wouldn't expect AMD themselves to make this kind of mistake and publish a Geekbench result, which makes me believe that the leak came from a partner (i.e PRC most likely). And partners of course don't do the kind of debug I mentioned.
Who told you that it's "such a big" core?I guess that PCPER inability to look further did gave you great hopes, indeed here to comfort your expectations, that is, this alleged Zen core has about the same IPC as Kabini in many of thoses ST tests, one has to wonder why AMD did bother to design such a big core just to equate what they already have at hand since years..
Who told you that it's "such a big" core?.
AMD said 40% higher then EX core,but zen cores have SMT (NOT hyperthreading) so they could end up with one SMT core being 140% EX divided by 2 = one ZEN (smt) core = 70% of one EX core..
but time will tell we need real benchmarks and not everydudes napkin calculations on how it might be.