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GamersNexus really hammering AMD's deceptive marketing around boost clocks. The only time it can hit its advertised boost clocks in when it's in the menu and y
by paulmd 7y ago
GamersNexus really hammering AMD's deceptive marketing around boost clocks. The only time it can hit its advertised boost clocks in when it's in the menu and you have near-zero load, and it barely touches it for an instant. Under even a single-core load it's failing to meet its advertised spec.
There was a lot of hubbub around this with the initial release, AMD released a BIOS which they claimed fixed this, looks like it still has not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3sNUFjV7p4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3sNUFjV7p4
The performance is good enough as it is, no need to lie about it being 200 MHz higher than it can actually do. But here we are again 6 months later and AMD does it again...
- nolok 7y agoWhich is weird because they have the performance. Showing the perf of the processor does all the marketing it needs, no matter what clock it's running at, and with normal/turbo clocks customers don't even get it anymore anyway, so I don't understand why AMD is handicapping itself like this in the marketing department.
- mackal 7y agoThe issue sems to be that the max advertised boosts is based on the number the plug into the boost algorithm. (I say based since some of them, especially higher end chips are 25-75 MHz higher than advertised boosts, a BIOS Dev posted them somewhere that I can't find :/) There is an issue when the chips don't really hit it.
- vondur 7y agoAs far as I can see most of the reviews have mentioned how the 3950x is able to hit the advertised boost, so it looks like AMD is paying attention.
- gameswithgo 7y agopeople want big boost clocks which is dumb. they got them (when under no load) which is dumb. seems everything is fine.