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0 pointseloff5y ago0 comments

Yes, but is that fair in a benchmark? The RAM maybe because all high end RAM speeds are technically out of spec and are overclocking. But messing with the CPU voltage to juice the benchmark results seems like cheating to me.

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Jonnax5y ago

Apple's chip has 4200Mhz RAM. Wouldn't it be fair to have both ram speeds the same?

Also it's a set of benchmarks some random person did.

It's interesting and useful information. They aren't a publication doing a comparison.

em5005y ago

> Apple's chip has 4200Mhz RAM. Wouldn't it be fair to have both ram speeds the same?

No it wouldn't, because Apple is selling that as their supported configuration. If that crashes due to ram / chip instability you can take it back to Apple to get a new one with the expected performance. That's completely different from your homebrew ram overclock, if that config doesn't stay stable, tough luck.

jzelinskie5y ago

For Zen, you actually want to run your memory clock at a multiple of the FCLK and not as high as possible. So making the RAM frequency the same as the M1 might have actually harmed performance.

reissbaker5y ago

I've read various theories about the right memory clock speed to use for Zen, but in all the gaming benchmarks I've seen, faster RAM clock speed ends up resulting in higher performance.

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eloffOP5y ago

I don't think that's true with Zen 3. If you have a source to the contrary I'm interested to see it.

user59944615y ago

I would agree on principle however this benchmark is comparing a desktop CPU to a laptop CPU.

If anything underclocking the desktop CPU is making the benchmark more meaningful.

AdrianB15y ago

Is it fair to have Apple paying for 5nm exclusivity? Fairness is relative.

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