#Zen5 Variants and More, Clock for Clock
They compare #Zen 5 variants along with a pile of older cores with clock speed taken out of the equation as much as possible. That means capping clock speeds on all CPUs to the lowest clocking chip. In this case, that’s the #3GHz Athlon II X2 651.
Desktop Zen 5 takes a healthy 20.8% lead over #Zen4 in the most comparable configuration. #VCache gives Zen 4 96 MB of L3 cache which shrinks Zen 5’s lead to a still significant 16.6%.
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Zen 5 Variants and More, Clock for Clock

Zen 5 is AMD’s newest core architecture. Just a few weeks after launch, Zen 5 has already hit the market with several different cache, clock speed, and AVX-512 configurations. Here, I’m…

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