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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by pedrocr on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:32PM (#24721533)
The IPC increase seems to be coming from the microarchitecture, not the process. The Anandtech article includes a breakdown:

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16148/1%20Slide%206_575px....

    +2.7% Cache Prefetching
    +3.3% Execution Engine
    +1.3% Branch Predictor
    +2.7% Micro-op Cache
    +4.6% Front End
    +4.6% Load/Store
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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by phkahler on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:32PM (#24724150)
No silver bullet there, just small gains in a bunch of areas. Some of those may have been hard wins too.
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