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Welcome back to the failed Pentium 4 strategy. >Raptor Lake to Offer ‘Unlimited Power’ Mode for Those Who Don’t Care About Heat, Electric Bills https://www.ex

• MuffinFlavored 4y ago
  It's true that like... naturally throughout production some chips have better "silicon" (for lack of better terms/words) and some have worse, leading some to get marked as lower frequency chips (because otherwise if you turn the clock speed/power/heat up too much on them, they don't perform as well/have errors due to... mild defects in manufacturing?) Am I understanding that correctly or butchering it? Like how would you describe the fact that not all chips Intel producers will be able to hit 6GHz+?
  • ender341341 4y ago
    I think more just the fall into "We're having trouble scaling performance with sane power usage, so just amp up the power usage" as to what was referenced as the Pentium 4 strategy. What you described is called binning and as far as I'm aware everyone does it (for example nvidia's founders editions tend to be the higher quality chips, causing 3rd party cards to not always overclock as well as older generations).
• xani_ 4y ago
  P4 was just plainly inferior architecture, this is not that. "Just" outdated one
• fomine3 4y ago
  Is it offered first? We can just set PL1/PL2 unlimited for older Intel CPUs.