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Ryzen doesn't have 256-bit wide units, so 256-bit instructions take 2x as long.
The benefit of that is that Ryzen doesn't throttle the clock speed of the whole chip when executing AVX2 instructions :P
Intel's widening of units has brought a giant downclocking problem: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...
Ryzen doesn't have 256-bit wide units, so 256-bit instructions take 2x as long.
The benefit of that is that Ryzen doesn't throttle the clock speed of the whole chip when executing AVX2 instructions :P
Intel's widening of units has brought a giant downclocking problem: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...