I was a little worried that AMD might have stagnated in terms of IPC and may have gone "Full Prescott*" (Never go full Prescott) to keep competitive until the clean sheet redesign in Zen5. However it seems I was worried for no good reason and the 7000-series isn't relying going crazy to bump up the clocks with the higher power limit or the DDR5 memory. Some of those benches had that classic "Stop! Stop! He's already dead"-scene from The Simpsons playing in my head.
*The Intel architecture where they went full "Screw performance and efficiency, what we need is way higher clocks than AMD!" and to achieve that bumped up the pipeline by over 50% in one go to a staggering 31 stages.
*The Intel architecture where they went full "Screw performance and efficiency, what we need is way higher clocks than AMD!" and to achieve that bumped up the pipeline by over 50% in one go to a staggering 31 stages.
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