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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by simion314 on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:54PM (#18630427)
The Intel compiler is not testing for capabilities so it just not enabling optimizations for AMD CPUs, https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/optimization-notic...

I am wondering why Intel is using images instead of text on that page, do they want to hide the information from web search ?

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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by jhasse on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:17AM (#18634676)
According to https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49 it also checks the CPUID.

There was also a guy who benchmarked a Blizzard game in a VM where he changed the CPUID of his AMD CPU to an Intel one and received better performance than on the host (with GPU pass-through btw).

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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by simion314 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @09:50AM (#18635468)
Yeah, that is what I meant, the Intel compiler does not check if the compiler supports a feature or not, instead checks the CPU ID and apply optimizations for the specific compiler, but offcourse the AMD CPUs get no optimizations,

I was hoping someone would have an alternative reasons why those web-pages are images and no text or confirm my suspicion that is SEO related .

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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by jhasse on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:10AM (#18635544)
Oh, I've missed the "not" in your previous comment, sorry ;)
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