Graphical Glitching

Thx Guys

 

Sorry for the OT post, but... am I correct in understanding that this thing is actually a single core processor with AMD's (weaker AFAIK?) answer to hyper-threading? It looks like the single-core performance isn't really that bad, but that doesn't get you far with only a single core. Without a strong HT equivalent it must stumble under almost every workload... what a mind-bending thing to launch at this point!

EDIT: Nope, I was not correct in understanding that. See below.

 

nah, my mistake. It's a dual core.

AMD do not offer hyper threading or any equivalent. They just pair their cores into Siamese twins and cripple them so they do kinda suck still.

 

Ah, I never read up on the details of what they'd been doing - I just knew that it was supposed to perform poorly. We are saying that the 7400k is subject to this "Siamese crappyness" thing though, right?

Huh. Passmark seems to show similar single-to-multi-thread scaling between the A6-7400k and the Pentium G3240. I wasn't able to quickly identify a modern intel CPU with such a closely matched single-threaded performance in Anandtech's Bench dataset... but here is the reasonably-similar-but-slightly-faster G3420 (4 and 2 are transposed for a different model launched 6 months apart... really Intel?) vs the A6-7400k: Anandtech doesn't seem to agree with Passmark. Other than the i-GPU the AMD part seems to get trounced, even in single-threaded. Look at Dolphin and Cinebench. It's certainly odd how different the results from Anandtech/Passmark were.

 

All their APU's as with the FX series are subject to the siamese crappiness with a conjoined FPU, instruction prefetch stage to the pipeline and caches (it should be noted though, in certain embedded systems applications the shared cache can be an advantage - we're talking when using the CPU programmed bare metal as part of an industrial machine rather than with a general purpose operating system like windows or linux).

 

Glad the problem has been fixed enjoy the game

 

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