How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
ibobev · hn · 2026-09-19
Daniel Lemire breaks down how AMD Ryzen chips gained roughly 50% in performance over two years, with concrete benchmarks examining core architecture, frequency, cache and memory subsystem effects on real workloads, plus a reproducible testing methodology.
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