What Beelink nailed on this unit is the power consumption and noise. We were in the normal 7-9W idle for this system, but under load, we were in the 78W range at the wall. Remarkably, the system just sat at that power level. We showed about 10 minutes of load at this power level in the video, but we ran it for over 30 minutes, and it did not down-clock. Most mini PCs get a few seconds at their maximum power levels, then drop down. This just sat at its maximum performance level.
Well yeah riding the tail end of the v/f curve is never free!True, but we are talking here about extra ~400-500MHz resulting in 72% more power in handbrake
That can't be right...Arrow is just bad for gaming. It performs worse than even Raptor Lake, actually even application performance is not that good, at least we know why AMD didn't release more than 16 cores.
Yes indeed, some of us have made that observation as well.I have just realized something : Zen 5 X3D in gaming to 285K is what Sandy Bridge was to Bulldozer. Insane stuff!
Post of this thread. Right here.I have just realized something : Zen 5 X3D in gaming to 285K is what Sandy Bridge was to Bulldozer. Insane stuff!
Cheer up. There is always RDNA4 to disappoint you and be dead on arrival!I'm not THAT happy coz now my expectations have been raised to the moon for 9950X3D and Strix Halo!
Life is HARD
Core not crippled by the dingus IOD? yea. It's a good core!Only the X3D variant is the real improvement in the x64 world this year.
They're good parts. But again, no halo == no wynnyn.There is always RDNA4 to disappoint you and be dead on arrival!
Not really the cache helps but redoing the IOD and getting a Memory controller that can do 1:1 higher than DDR5 6000 will be the perma fix.It’s already been addressed with X3D.
Yep, market only cares about halo then people buy the crippled lesser 5060 series.They're good parts. But again, no halo == no wynnyn.
Well, no, they just need a faster D2D interface and an additional 32B link to the IMC and there you go.Not really the cache helps but redoing the IOD and getting a Memory controller that can do 1:1 higher than DDR5 6000 will be the perma fix.
Why such high expectations? Especially for 9950X3D?I'm not THAT happy coz now my expectations have been raised to the moon for 9950X3D and Strix Halo!
Life is HARD
Just shows clock speed still very important!
Because there's a little birdie flying around saying that 9950X3D will have higher stock clocks than 9800X3D. And even the 9900X3D may beat the 9800X3D in games!Why such high expectations? Especially for 9950X3D?
This also applied to 7950X3D, yet 7800X3D was faster.Because there's a little birdie flying around saying that 9950X3D will have higher stock clocks than 9800X3D. And even the 9900X3D may beat the 9800X3D in games!
Being 35% faster in games than 285K is surely going to cause some heartache.
that really helps on desktop.It's been addressed with stx-halo.
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A real generational perf bump in TWW3.