I can't wait to see a similar review of Bergamo/Zen 4c. Die shot analysis shows the cores themselves, not counting the L3 cache, are also 35% smaller than regular cores. But most of the specs look the same. There's a huge mystery here and there have got to be some interesting sacrifices.

Maybe maybe maybe 4c is chiefly a process tweak, that going lower power let them use more aggressive process scaling. Maybe. But that's still a huge die-space reduction that makes me think there's some secrets like here in this chip, that chipsandcheese.com was able to uncover with read deep prying/benchmarking.

I do wish the graphs in this article had a comparison processor or two. A regular Zen 3 would be great.