Intel Core I7-1065G7, 10nm Ice Lake CPU Surpasses AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen

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Headline is a little misleading. This is a comparison of power efficient mobile chips. The '3rd gen Ryzen' mobile chips are based on the last generation zen+ architecture. They're not the same '3rd Gen Ryzen' desktop chips based on the new zen 2 design that everyone is getting hype for right now.

edit: after digging in a little more, this link has some more interesting comparisons of supposed benchmarks from Ice Lake vs upcoming zen 2 based chips. https://wccftech.com/intel-10nm-ice-lake-sunny-cove-14nm-com...

Not to mention, that this is a single benchmark from an unknown source. Without knowing what system the benchmark was run on, I would hesitate to draw any conclusions. Thermal performance matter a lot with modern CPU's -- better cooling will allow the CPU to maintain a higher clock for longer. So the i7-1065G7's performance may in fact be lower in a 15w TDP laptop.

The benchmark states that, for intel's processor, "# of samples" is 1 while AMD is 32. What does this mean? Are Intel's results taken from a single lucky test run while AMD's results are a statistic compiled from 32 test runs?

These are online sites where people can post their benchmark results - in the AMD case, hardware is already on the market so a bunch of regular people ran the benchmark. The single Intel result is just an (intentional?) leak of results for a chip that's not widely available yet. It's difficult to say whether it was cherry-picked, but it's definitely not reliable.

> in the AMD case, hardware is already on the market so a bunch of regular people ran the benchmark.

That only raises mor doubts regarding the validity. What's the meaning of that magic value? Is it the average? The median? Are there any outliers? Was any outlier removed?

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