To your point of how far new zen cores have come, I have a fun story from work.
In short, in my specific use case, my 7840HS (8 zen4 laptop cores) was at parity or outperforming a 1950X (16 zen1 desktop cores), in a fully multithreaded task.
The workload was essentially a bunch of RISC-V simulators running independently in parallel through a makefile, so the individual tasks benefit greatly from increased IPC.
I’m not sure the entire gain in performance comes from IPC, but it’s probably the majority and that is still very impressive.
I got a great deal on a 1950X setup due to a NewEgg sale, and it’s been a powerhouse for various “serious” tasks, but each individual core is pretty anemic and that does hurt it in a few games.
If laptop cores are matching or exceeding that, I feel confident in sticking with AMD for the next little while.
Those laptop cores are kerbstomping the zen1 cores according to these benchmarks.
Double the performance for single-core geekbench, which matches what I observed as well.
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To your point of how far new zen cores have come, I have a fun story from work. In short, in my specific use case, my 7840HS (8 zen4 laptop cores) was at parity or outperforming a 1950X (16 zen1 desktop cores), in a fully multithreaded task. The workload was essentially a bunch of RISC-V simulators running independently in parallel through a makefile, so the individual tasks benefit greatly from increased IPC. I’m not sure the entire gain in performance comes from IPC, but it’s probably the majority and that is still very impressive.
I got a great deal on a 1950X setup due to a NewEgg sale, and it’s been a powerhouse for various “serious” tasks, but each individual core is pretty anemic and that does hurt it in a few games. If laptop cores are matching or exceeding that, I feel confident in sticking with AMD for the next little while.
Those laptop cores are kerbstomping the zen1 cores according to these benchmarks. Double the performance for single-core geekbench, which matches what I observed as well.