03-16-2017, 10:56 PM
Quote:An important point to note here is that this little known benchmark has been tailored by its developer to be highly specific to the CPU micro-architecture, with separate binaries for each major x64 architecture (eg: Bulldozer, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, Skylake, etc.), and as such the GitHub repository does not have a "Zen" specific binary.
I don't know that I'd call fail on a little used synthetic benchmark, that is coded to each CPU, cause for alarm.
I'd buy a Ryzen if I were in need of a CPU now just to support what they have done here.
I'm a real gamer, so my only display options are 3440 X 1440 or 4K, I don't really care what the 1080P I was using 15 years ago is running like.
AMD did something HUGE here:
They built something that exceeds intel in business apps (most of the market) and still does very well in gaming. (and more importantly to me, with enough juice to get up to the intel levels when high def gaming. I get that they aren't as good in general at gaming, but what they've done here is big.
It's a coup about equal to GStan's one man PC shop getting the worldwide IBM workstation contract instead of Dell.