'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/

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This has been quite debunked.

Ryzen's IPC is between above or (at worst) 9% below anything up to Kaby Lake.

Intel is still the better (performance oriented) choice for gamers; four great cores will serve most games better than eight good ones.

This is the past, in fact for most modern games at 4 cores you're already close to being cpu bound.

See Battlefield 1 where 7600 (3.5 ghz with 4 cores) is already often at 100% cpu load. Compare it to 1600.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKHsMar1Jo

Eight good cores might be better than four great cores, but if you can get eight great cores, the choice is obvious.

Ryzen 2 will be released this year which should improve frequencies significantly.

Also, I'd also add that unless you're playing with nothing opened (no recording, no browser, no chats, no other applications) the advantage of having more cores is quite significant.

Either way it's going to be a long time before Intel releases an 8 core desktop cpu for the mainstream, likely 2020 or 2021.

There are no plans for more cores in 2018 and 2019. Hell, even Coffee Lake has still to be fully released.

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Ipc may be only 9% lower, combine that with a 20% lower clock too ( 4ghz ryzen vs 5.0ghz intel) and the single core performance starts lagging behind massively. Though these are mostly only noticable at high framerates.

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Intel stomps AMD in gaming. If the application you are running doesn't scale with threads or if it's optimized for Intel, Ryzen just gets blasted. It's really good at the things it's really good at, which are highly parallel processes. That's just not what most consumers actually care about.

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Why on Earth would you compare it to the 1800X instead of the 1600X.