uzzi38
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IPC vs core clocks doesn't change much for games. They both have the same effect more or less. Also, a 20% IPC gain at 4.5GHz is still roughly equal in performance to 5.4GHz on the original uArch, so I'm not sure what your point is there? That's higher ST performance than Comet Lake.It probably won't change things either way. Cometlake is already a lost cause in very parallel applications.
But in other applications it may turn out even better. Lots of multithreaded applications where core scaling is poor. Also the new uarch will bring gains in the areas Skylake is weak in.
Games are going to love the new uarch as they always do. If you see GN tests, they scale poorly with clocks, and worse with cores. Just 20% gain there will wreck most chips even at 4.5GHz.
Rocket Lake would need to clock higher than that and still provide that IPC upgrade of a notable improvement in games over Comet Lake.
Memory latency is something that drastically improves performance on both AMD and Intel systems right now. If you want to improve gaming performance significantly, lower latency access to memory is the best way to do it.