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Morning Tech Bits
[Oct 08, 2024, 10:51 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Global semiconductor sales up 20.6% to hit record $53.1B • The Register.
First Gaming Benchmarks for Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Leaked - DSOGaming.
The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening - WIRED (may require registration or subscription).
Samsung says it’s in “crisis,” apologizes for missing profit target - Ars Technica.
NVIDIA DLSS Comes To FragPunk, Silent Hill 2 & More, Plus Check Out An Incredible Fortnite RTX LEGO PC - GeForce News.
Foxconn to Build Taiwan’s Fastest AI Supercomputer With NVIDIA Blackwell - NVIDIA Blog.
Microsoft is tightening its Windows 11 restrictions - but hackers swoop in to save the day, again - TechRadar. Thanks Neutronbeam.
AMD has a limited edition 4th Generation EPYC Genoa Lego model kit, complete with die shot - Tom's Hardware. Thanks Neutronbeam.

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Re: Morning Tech Bits
Oct 8, 2024, 14:26

Nullity

Re: Morning Tech Bits Oct 8, 2024, 14:26

Oct 8, 2024, 14:26

Nullity

RogueSix wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 14:05:
Nullity wrote on Oct 8, 2024, 13:45:
... and for gaming they compared to the 7950X3D instead of the 7800X3D, showing they're still not attempting to be honest

Huh? Depending on the game/website/benchmark/methodology, the 7950X3D is actually a tiny little bit faster than the 7800X3D but the performance difference is generally negligible. It is also the 16 core part and the Intel CPU is a 24 core part so actually I would say that it is more honest to compare 16 cores (7950X3D) vs. 24 cores (285K) than 8 cores (7800X3D) vs. 24 cores (285K).

The 7950 has 2 CCDs (each with 8 cores), only one of which uses the X3D cache. If the non-3D cache CCD isn't disabled during gaming (core parking), performance will be worse than the 7800 with just a single CCD. So in essence (for gaming specifically), the 7950 and 7800 X3D CPUs are both 8-core parts. I don't trust Intel to do this comparison properly.

Perhaps I should have gone into more detail in my original post. In any case, obviously we need to wait for independent tests.