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How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

487 points · 206 comments · ibobev

  1. nly · · focus · HN ↗
    Am I missing something? Max boost went up by only 15% but the base frequency went up 38%

    Better thermals maybe? Less throttling?

    1. kasabali · · focus · HN ↗
      its manufactured on a smaller node so probably has more leeway for higher freq on all core loads.

      I’d also be weary of single core scores,Geekbench is known to be favoring specialized instruction sets like AVX or encryption extensions more and more as the version number progresses. Though I don’t know if GB6 is also like this I wouldn’t be surprised it it was caused by it.

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