Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b...
by jedbrown on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:06PM
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This is a deep dive on frequency scaling and IPC throttling related to AVX512 instructions. The consequences are quite large, surprisingly complicated, and persist for an eternity, which is why you really have to coax the compiler if you want it to issue these instructions.
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html
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Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b...
by sarosh on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:35PM
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Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22077974