Originally posted by shmerl
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Perhaps something similar impacted the CPU side. But maybe it was something completely different. Maybe working on Spectre mitigations meant they didn't have time for the usual rounds of optimization before release, and they had to push it out with suboptimal cache timings.
We're left guessing because it's distributed as a binary blob and there's no commercial benefit to AMD to change that or issue more details. :-/
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