Allen
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Originally Posted By: Jedi Master
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...AMD, the door is open, give us a reason, please.
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
I think 5GHz is nearly the limit for a current technology CPU. So, it comes down to "instructions per clock", "cores", and "threads" (for newer applications -- as noted in the article). Zen seems to be challenging in the "cores and threads" department. We'll see regarding IPC and maximum overclocked Clock speed.
In the meantime:
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AMD Vega Performance Demoed, Faster Than GTX 1080 – Features 8GB of HBM2 & 512GB/s Of Bandwidth
..In a head to head performance comparison with an overclocked GTX 1080..
..No Vega optimized driver was used. Despite this the consumer Vega graphics card was able to outperform [an overclocked] GTX 1080 running at 1911Mhz by 10%. ...