Recent content by kinggremlin

IPC is not a singular number for any CPU. It varies greatly depending on the code being run. So, it is certainly possible for a CPU to have a higher IPC in some applications vs the competition while having a lower one in other applications. That said, current gen Ryzen on average has a higher...

That is a reasonable expectation, though I don't blame Intel because they don't. It's up to the motherboard manufacturer to decide default settings. I blame Asus for selling top of the line enthusiasts targeted motherboards that don't prioritize performance out of the box.

Yes, and I have one that says the setting is 0, and another one that says the setting is -1. So, who knows? Everyone seems to agree there is an infinite setting while no one seems to agree what it is. I don't care what the setting is, only that it exists.

No, because you can set both to unlimited values. "Then we’ll look at the power that’s being consumed, and as long as it is less than your power limit PL2, you are good. So we continue on at that frequency. " So, if you set the PL2 to 4096W, you will always be below PL2 so you will never...

Sure, but if the motherboard maker sets the PL2 limit to 999W, you're never going to reach that.

The EPA has a fuel economy rating for your car. That is the TDP rating for your vehicle. The fuel economy rating has to be accurate as Hyundai/Kia found out a few years ago. Chevy advertises their corvette can hit 200MPH. Everyone knows that you aren't going to get the advertised fuel...

TDP is only a spec for base clocks. How many times do we need to repeat this to you? If the CPU is boosting, the base clock TDP no longer applies, so it can't be exceeded.

I'll take the word Intel Fellow Guy Therien, the Chief Architect of Intel’s Client Performance Segmentation, over some guy on You Tube about what constitutes running an Intel CPU in or out of spec...

According to Intel, removing the boosting time limit and power limits does not take a CPU out of spec, nor is it considered overclocking. Any enthusiast/gamer targetted motherboard should have these limits removed by default as almost all of them do. The blame falls on the motherboard maker if...

I believe it was the late 90's that Bill Gates compared the computer industry to other industries and made the point that if innovation had progressed at the same rate, a mid sized car would cost $27 and a box of cereal would cost 1 cent. The break neck pace that performance improved and prices...

9900k did not get an official price cut. List price is still $488 which it has been at for a while. https://camelcamelcamel.com/Intel-i9-9900K-Desktop-Processor-unlocked/product/B005404P9I Looks like it's about $3 cheaper than it was in late September. That's a pretty crappy price cut. HEDT...

The formerly $1,999 i9-9980XE. It sells for well below that now. Newegg -$1090 At $1000, the i9-10980XE will be priced quite competitively vs these new Threadripper CPU's.

Agreed, terrible format for such an article. It's like ranking victims of a boat sinking by who died the least. Sorry, the guy that treaded water for 15 minutes longer than anyone else before drowning isn't a winner. If you have one serious security flaw, it doesn't matter how many the...

Whoops. Yea, not sure what happened to the quote there.

Nvidia took the plunge on hardware ray tracing. We will all benefit in the long run by that move. That took a lot of money to develop, and a lot of die space to implement. AMD is on a superior node and has neither tensor cores nor RTX cores taking up die space and still can't beat the 3 year...