Lemire: 15% frequency gain can't explain Ryzen's 50% performance jump
lemire · x · 2026-09-18
Part 2 of Lemire's CPU thread: frequency only increased by about 15% across these Ryzen generations, which cannot explain the 50%+ Geekbench improvement — the gains must come from elsewhere in the microarchitecture.
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