That's when I discovered actually ancient term "power virus". Anyway, after talking to different people I dismissed this weird behavior and moved on.
Reading this makes me worry I actually burned mobo in that testing.
That's when I discovered actually ancient term "power virus". Anyway, after talking to different people I dismissed this weird behavior and moved on.
Reading this makes me worry I actually burned mobo in that testing.
Iirc the FFT step uses AVX, and on Zen 5 that’ll be AVX-512. It should keep 100% of the required data in L1 caches, so you’re keeping the AVX units busy literally 100% of the time if things are working right. The rest of the core will be cold/inactive, so if you’re dumping an entire core’s worth of power into a teeny tiny ALU, which is gonna result in high temps. Most (all?) processors downclock under heavy AVX load, sometimes by as much a 1GHz (compared to max boost), because a) the crazy high temperatures results in more instability at higher frequencies, and b) if the clocks were kept high, temperatures would get even higher.