Monday, August 12th 2019
AMD Updates Ryzen Product Pages to Elaborate on "Max Boost Clocks"
AMD over the weekend updated the product-pages of its Ryzen processors on the company website to be very specific about what they mean by "Max Boost Clocks," that are advertised almost as extensively as the processor's main nominal clock-speeds. AMD describes it has "the maximum single-core frequency at which the processor is capable of operating under nominal conditions." We read into this as the highest boost-clock given to one of the cores on the processor.
If you've been reading the "clock-frequency and boost analysis" charts in our processor reviews, you'll know that AMD processors spread their boost frequency progressively across cores during a multi-threaded workload that scales across all cores. At any given time, only one of the cores is awarded the highest boost clock, and while the other cores too get boosted beyond the nominal clock-speeds, they are in slight decrements of 25-50 MHz. The graph below is from our Ryzen 7 3700X review. The second graph below is from our Core i9-9900K review, which too shows only one of the cores getting the max boost frequency, and the remaining cores getting lower boost clocks, although the graph looks flatter.
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If you've been reading the "clock-frequency and boost analysis" charts in our processor reviews, you'll know that AMD processors spread their boost frequency progressively across cores during a multi-threaded workload that scales across all cores. At any given time, only one of the cores is awarded the highest boost clock, and while the other cores too get boosted beyond the nominal clock-speeds, they are in slight decrements of 25-50 MHz. The graph below is from our Ryzen 7 3700X review. The second graph below is from our Core i9-9900K review, which too shows only one of the cores getting the max boost frequency, and the remaining cores getting lower boost clocks, although the graph looks flatter.
134 Comments on AMD Updates Ryzen Product Pages to Elaborate on "Max Boost Clocks"
My dude... locked or unlocked isnt baked into the silicon. If amd wanted in that market, they would be there. Oems would want it... and it would sell.
Clearly I do, the answer is yes. Why WOULDN'T they is a better question... there is a non HT part coming out to compete in that budget space. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw more.
I have no idea what the price of rice in China has to do with this discussion. Let's keep the goal posts within context at least, eh? :)
I believe amds will fix this problem. Maybe a bios update will fix it like it did for thelostswede. Either way, the variable is out of my control.