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To be fair, it's 5GHz turbo frequency - not an expert but isn't the entire point of the turbo mode to run in short bursts when necessary? Seems like for occasio
by davnicwil 7y ago
To be fair, it's 5GHz turbo frequency - not an expert but isn't the entire point of the turbo mode to run in short bursts when necessary? Seems like for occasional 100% usage short workloads like compiling code it'd be great to go up to 5GHz even just for a few seconds and shave maybe a second or two off a 10s build. That's my understanding of what this could be useful for anyway.
- zaarn 7y agoIntel has been moving to advertising the turbo clock more prominently than the actual clock you get in typical use. Especially 10nm seems to be plagued. Compared to a previous generation, it might boost higher for a few seconds but then clocks lower so your build takes the same time or even longer. On the flipside, AMD's advertised frequency is the frequency that it'll have during typical use with a cooler rated for the advertised TDP. The boost clock is what it can boost on that cooler for some time, if you cooler is better you might get more.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI've got a regular ol' 9900k and it sits happily at its boost clock of 4.7 GHz the whole time on air cooling (though not 100% processor utilization for hours - it'll run through Cinebench happily without getting close to throttling), so hopefully this will be able to sit at 5.0 GHz steady assuming a relatively sane load.