> same performance
at much lower power consumption! Every time a new processor comes around, lots of people complain that they don't need faster but want less heat and less noise. Now they get it and still complain.
at much lower power consumption! Every time a new processor comes around, lots of people complain that they don't need faster but want less heat and less noise. Now they get it and still complain.
It's a much better release than many of the Intel refreshes, but the marketing leading up to it was quite bizarre compared to launch performance.
Moving the same performance down ~40w is great. Having better branch prediction, more registers, lower latency on many ops and double the SIMD width for no cost? Fantastic.
They sold it as a huge gaming gain that hasn't materialized, and then tried to say it was due to windows admin modes interfering with branch prediction (True, but equally seems to apply to Zen3/4)
If they'd sold this as a perf/W and backend architecture shift, they wouldn't be getting the reaction they're currently earning.