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Federico Iezzi's avatar

Wow, this is indeed a blast from the past! Fun fact: I have some rare AMD Magny-Cours ES samples lying around. I remember, back in the day, we considered Magny-Cours not for SMP applications, but for workloads that relied on single-core performance—essentially large, VM-based applications. As Chester pointed out, Intel's approach was better at the time, but AMD played the long game, sticking with the same technique for a long time. They constantly made refinements that ultimately led to the groundbreaking Zen1 architecture. Fun times indeed.

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Correction, mine are early Bulldozers samples. Still fun to have them around -> https://imgur.com/a/w49OyDN

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