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I'm kind of disappointed in this. While they are upping the core count, the overall clock speed is being decreased across the board. This means that single thre

I'm kind of disappointed in this. While they are upping the core count, the overall clock speed is being decreased across the board. This means that single threaded processes will theoretically perform slower (I know it still turbos up). Honestly, I just upgraded to Ryzen from a 3770k and. My 3770k ran all cores at 4.2GHz (overclocked, obviously) and the only reason I updated was becasue I wanted to upgrade to NVMe and DDR4. That was 4 years old and I had no CPU-bound performance issues. I really think Intel needs to start innovating more rather than being complacent or AMD is actually going to steal the show. Super happy for the competition though!

vith 9y ago
> I know it still turbos up Is the base clock relevant in any interesting situation? As far as I know it's just telling you what to expect if you disable Turbo Boost in the BIOS. The frequency at idle should be lower through SpeedStep, and the frequency during load should be higher through Turbo Boost. If there are thermal limits preventing the maximum turbo frequency from being reached at all times, I still wouldn't expect the average frequency to be related to the base clock. It should be more or less bound by how insufficient the cooling system is. I think even the instantaneous clocks can fall somewhere between the various listed frequencies under throttling conditions. Also note that the max turbo frequency is different depending on how many cores are loaded.