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Are these results with/without Spectre/Meltdown protection on/off.
I wonder what other "in-house benchmarking" tweaks can be done to the microcode (e.g. skip all housekeeping, reconfigure L1/L2/L3 cache for max single thread performance, later, switch to max multi-thread performance) to improve benchmark scores to get more heat into early PR interest.
A bit like VW diesel engines. Synthetic "monitored" performance radically different to real world on-the-road behaviour?
I'm not knocking this specific CPU, just becoming increasingly cynical about what's going on in the R&D labs.
I think people have become so accustomed to AMD being behind the mark, that when they see something else outside the norm their mind kind of panics.
Secondly... the people arguing at the beginning of this thread about what represents annihilation and what doesn't... I really got a laugh out of that. So thank you.