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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by scott00 on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:42PM (#20308636)
I use the TSC for high precision timing, and turning TSC ticks into nanoseconds requires interpreting model specific registers, so my timing code would need AMD specific patches to work properly on those processors. Not necessarily a deal-breaker, but it would definitely be an annoyance for me if I did decide to switch. Probably not super relevant to scientific computing or ML though.
Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by TwoBit on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:28PM (#20309682)
How do you use the TSC for timing when the frequency is changing unpredictably?
Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by wmf on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:45PM (#20309772)
Recent processors have invariant TSC.