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Old 30th January 2019, 09:21   #6675  |  Link
NikosD
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Originally Posted by Stephen R. Savage View Post
This is only true on server CPU. There is no separate frequency for AVX on client CPU (7700K, 8700K, 9900K, etc.). The extent to which you may see "lower clocks" on non-server is if you are encoding faster and running into the 65/95 W power limit, and in that case AMD will be no different.
But this is exactly the case for AMD, that they will not hit that power limit because of better efficiency/ architecture of Zen 2 implementing AVX2 instructions than any Intel architecture so far.

Probably 7nm could help too, keeping the same clocks for AVX2 like all the other instruction sets.
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