AMD vs Intel Single threading?

[Ice Tea]

How well is AMD currently doing for single threading compared to intel as some people seem to feel it's got better but still not as good as Intel?

 

[Ice Tea]

A bottom end 200GE beating a I7 Haswell is pretty amazing.

Thanks for posting that.

 

[Ice Tea]

The reason i asked is because i'm considering jumping over to AMD and had concerns with Linux as multithreading can still be flakey or non-existent with legacy apps.I've noticed Gnome-Boxes can do some freaky thing like suddenly using 1 core.

Slightly different single threading between the two i can live with.

 

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@sandys , @Panos

Thanks both , i didn't consider the side channel patches.

 

[Ice Tea]

People talk about Ram speed being important with AMD is that just Gaming or does that include general desktop single / multi threading tasks?

 

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Pretty much everything - though there is a point where you get diminishing returns - 2000 series for instance sees fairly big gains upto 3000MHz with reasonable timings and a moderate gain to 3200MHz but after that it is generally negligible.

I'm glad i didn't buy any of those cheap 2300MHz deals.