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Re:Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of ... by hajile on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @11:31AM (#17550375)
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/frequency_behavior

Intel reduces clockspeeds when running AVX2 and drastically decreases clockspeeds when running AVX512. AMD's slightly smaller unit doesn't need to slow down, so the actual performance difference is smaller than it would appear.

Changing frequency takes time. Also, if you are putting through an AVX instruction and a few integer instructions at the same time, the integer instructions will downclock the whole time the AVX pipeline is in use (plus the time before/and after while the clockspeed is being adjusted) decreasing performance for more than just the AVX.

There are a couple articles written on the topic. Here's one.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...

https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-isa-extensions...

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