Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by loser777 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:23AM
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I think the IPC gap will become an interesting battle in the near future, especially as gains that came from aggressive speculation have proven to introduce security holes (take your pick of Meltdown, Spectre variant n,...).
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Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by tpetry on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:13AM
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Are there any good post-Meltdown benchmarks conparing Intel and AMD?
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by std_throwaway on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:56AM
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Anandtech did a benchmark but that had a flaw in the way they measured the time. Many other benchmarks are with unpatched OS versions to keep comparability. It's not easy to judge when they don't explicitly investigate that effect.
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by zelos on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:10AM
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Anandtech updated the benchmarks eventually: the massive performance drop that they attributed to meltdown/spectre patches vanished.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-second-generation-r...
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by kuzko_topia on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:58AM
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Phoronix is my go to for those in depth benchmarks with security patches
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by std_throwaway on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @06:00AM
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True, they compared a lot - but exclusively under Linux.
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by baldfat on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @07:26AM
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Which is the main OS that will us CPUs when you count servers. Granted that isn't the consumer CPUs we care about but the work on servers actually trickles down. It isn't some minor group and AMD and Intel are very much concerned about how their CPUs run under Linux.
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by kuzko_topia on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:37AM
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To be fair it's only recently that released the windows version of the openbanchmarking software, so this linux only side of things will change for sure. But yes
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by protomyth on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @06:53AM
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They have added various BSDs to their benchmarking.
Re:AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019
by mozumder on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:21AM
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Just use Geekbench. It's great for core performance comparisons, based on actual micro-workloads.
BTW We're looking at ~4200 for Ryzen, ~4800 Ryzen 2, and ~5800 for i7 Coffee Lake.