Talking Zen 6 with Mike Clark at AMD In-Depth

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koutakun

Interesting article. Very rare to see CPU designers go so in depth.

minfazhai

The inversion is the part I didn't expect: the dense Zen 6c is now the top IPC core (full 4MB L3 per core), and the old classic design is the high-frequency one. They also tried not to leave a software-visible gap, so the same optimizations still apply to both.

Talking Zen 6 with Mike Clark at AMD In-Depth

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