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I disagree here. Mostly because people have very wrong expectation on CPU improvement. Largely distorted by media and Apple in the news cycle. Zen 5 brings ~13
by ksec 2y ago
I disagree here. Mostly because people have very wrong expectation on CPU improvement. Largely distorted by media and Apple in the news cycle.
Zen 5 brings ~13% for integer and ~25% for Floating Point performance increase for the current code, while lowering power usage on the same node compared to Zen 4. If we were to measure power / performance the Zen 5 is easily 25% to 50% uplift.
And it is also ignoring two things. Zen 5 was largely designed for 3nm in the first place. Some of the things for 4nm could be argued as not optimal as it should be. Second being Zen 5 was a ground up design and layering the foundation for Zen 6 and Zen 7.
I dont know if it was a missed opportunity in messaging. If I were to judge tech news circle from HN, Reddit, and most popular media. Hard core nerds that used to care and studying CPU Hardware changes are largely gone. All the details about front and back end design, Core to Core latency, things that Anandtech and other media that does deep dive into it no longer gets any views. And all that consumer cares if whether they could get higher performance, or more core.
So I guess it is a mixed AMD not doing good enough in marketing and media generally dont want to talk about things that dont interest their reader.
And then finally, AMD really cares about datacenter market, more so than consumer. Which is where Zen 5 is good at.