So ... all reports of the CPUs performance being shit or way below expectations are just due to windows. As always.
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I hate reviewers doing that. It's like buying a sports car and rating it on what you are legally allowed to drive. It doesn't make any sense. Also, windows performance will vary extremely depending on privacy settings, edition and country (eg. due to the EUs privacy regulations). A minimal Arch setup will ALWAYS be the same in every aspect. No new shit no one needs. No performance-wasting malware by default. Just an OS.
Reviewers like Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed serve the Windows gamer market first. If you game on Windows you want to know the best price/performance for your purposes. Benchmarking kernel compiles and database transactions on Linux has zero relevance to a Windows gamer, particularly if Microsoft bugs cause the performance not to translate.
If we only looked at raw hardware performance and ignored platform support we might evaluate Nvidia only on Windows and determine they are the best graphics cards for Linux users which would be insane. Platform support matters to an audience.
The vast majority of sports cars never ever drive on a circuit so yes they should be tested on normal roads.
The argume t would be that their job is to advise buyers on the performance they would see. If most buyers are using windows and gaming then they should report windows gaming numbers.
However, there's a lot of people who aren't doing that and I'm not sure where we are meant to get our numbers from. Phronix I guess.
Yeah really should be testing on freebsd and minimal linux distros. Could much easier automate the entire test process then too
Something is wrong with the Windows scheduler and these new chips. The Linux results aren't revolutionary, but they're about what you'd expect from what AMD marketed in terms of IPC uplift.
More reviewers should benchmark hardware on multiple operating systems.
The new gamer's nexus review outlines some pretty specific prerequisites that AMD sent to fix performance on Windows, and AMD didn't communicate those until they'd had the review units for days.
Yes, but even then the Phoronix results seem to suggest a larger gap in performance.
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On a slight tangent, Phoronix is effin awesome
Michael has written more than 20,000 articles since 2004, plus he is the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org. This guy is a one man army!
Yeah it never ceases to amaze me how much work that guy does, it's amazing
Phoronix is the ONLY website I disable uBlock Origin for.
I think I have so many little privacy tweaks over the years that even when I disable ublock origin on Phoronix. It still thinks I am using an ad blocker.
Other than the anti adblock shit they use.
Do they? I've seen it, you can still browse it with an ad blocker. A pop-up will appear once in a while asking you to disable it, but there is the option to not pay and continue using it without ads.
That's encouraging, 3ven though these models are out of my price range.
I'm planning to build a new system pretty soon. With Intel 13 an 14th Gen woes, AMD CPU releases and upcoming (Septmber) AM5 Motherboards, my planning is in constant flux.
Can someone PLEASE do some reviews of the Strix Point CPUs running Linux on notebooks?