AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench

Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by StillBored on Thursday June 20, 2019 @03:21PM (#20236341)

I think his argument is that you will get bit flips, ECC is just going to report and/or correct them. Without it, your hoping the bit flips show up somewhere you can detect them (application crash/etc) rather than silently chugging along and ruining your results/data/whatever.

I had the chance a long time ago to work on a product that as a side effect was corrupting system memory... Think of it as a kernel module that picks a random number between 0 and MAX_RAM and flips a byte. Its truly amazing how many of those can happen before there is any visible evidence something is wrong.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by Dylan16807 on Friday June 21, 2019 @01:14AM (#20240041)

You're talking about ECC vs. no ECC. That's not what the comment was saying, it was saying it handled single bit flips correctly but not double bit flips. But at 1 bit flip per GB per year, randomly distributed, you are guaranteed many single bit flips but a double bit flip is almost never going to occur.

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