"SSE speed" is the most meaningful term I've ever seen. Ryzen doesn't have 256-bit wide units, so 256-bit instructions take 2x as long. The benefit of that is

"SSE speed" is the most meaningful term I've ever seen. Ryzen doesn't have 256-bit wide units, so 256-bit instructions take 2x as long. The benefit of that is that Ryzen doesn't throttle the clock speed of the whole chip when executing AVX2 instructions :P Intel's widening of units has brought a giant downclocking problem: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequency-scaling/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...