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I picked the Ars article because they showed real-world performance like encoding. Geekbench scores are difficult to impossible to equate to real-world results.
by Sakos 2y ago
I picked the Ars article because they showed real-world performance like encoding. Geekbench scores are difficult to impossible to equate to real-world results. There are ways to measure it properly, but most sites seem to just do Geekbench or something else like it and call it a day. Single-core performance isn't this universal thing. What's your actual workload like? I'm all over the Ryzen x3D CPUs because they have proven massive performance improvements for things I care about like Factorio. Some site reporting "yeah, single and multi-core scores are 20% better" doesn't mean anything. 20% better at what exactly?
- TylerE 2y agoI will say that my M1 Mac runs Factorio like an absolute dream. There is an ARM native port now and it’s really good. It something like doubled UPS over the old Intel binary. One of the big advantages the M chips have is the insanely fast integrated memory, since it’s all right on the die. It’s much closer to ultra high spec GPU ram than PC ram. My M1 studio has 200GB/sec of memory bandwidth. Extant DDR5 modules are under 50GB/sec
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- sudosysgen 2y agoThe X3D chips have an absolutely ridiculous amount of L3 cache, so when your workload fits largely in L3 they have far, far more memory bandwidth than any other option on the market. That's the case pretty often, especially for games, hence the workload specificity. The X3D cache system means some workloads are 50% faster and some are 20% slower, so workload really does matter.