How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?(lemire.me)

30 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 4 comments

kristianp 12 minutes ago |

2 years sounds very fast. It seems to be because the 3d cache SKUs of each generation were released at different stages. The Zen 3 one was a later variant.

First zen 3 November 5, 2020 with desktop processors. First desktop Ryzen 9000 processors on August 8, 2024. So the generations were about 4 years apart.

nly 1 hour ago |

Am I missing something? Max boost went up by only 15% but the base frequency went up 38%

Better thermals maybe? Less throttling?

ProllyInfamous 1 minute ago | |

>>Better thermals maybe?

One of the biggest improvements to the Ryzen 7 X3D series (e.g. 9800) is that the caches have been moved from one side of the die (to the other), which places the major heat source closer to the heat sinks.

SO yes, less heat throttling.

kasabali 1 hour ago | |

its manufactured on a smaller node so probably has more leeway for higher freq on all core loads.

I’d also be weary of single core scores,Geekbench is known to be favoring specialized instruction sets like AVX or encryption extensions more and more as the version number progresses. Though I don’t know if GB6 is also like this I wouldn’t be surprised it it was caused by it.

kgwgk 2 hours ago |

It would have been funny if the "how" had been dropped to end with "Did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"