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Re:Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are... by FullyFunctional on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:54AM (#20797538)
Ah, but that’s making assumptions about the user. There are lots of power users for whom IO bandwidth matters; high-end video editing for example.
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Re:Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are... by tjoff on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:26AM (#20797632)
And low-cores are not?! We have been core starved for almost a decade!

IO matters but peak bandwidth sequential reads are not such a limiting factor even for power users.

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Re:Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are... by nottorp on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:12AM (#20797594)
They - and any other subset - can get the PCIe 4 SSDs of course.

There are "lots" of other subsets where it stopped mattering a while ago though.

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