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Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b... by shaklee3 on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:48AM (#22383949)
I thought that @Beeonarope had shown that avx2 instructions do not clock down at all. It was only AVX-256 and avx-512 that did.
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Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b... by Filligree on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:42PM (#22385023)
I believe it depends on which CPU generation you have.
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Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b... by shaklee3 on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:23PM (#22385937)
Yeah, I'm referring to the latest generation, of which this AMD should fit that description.
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