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SMT Performance Benchmarks Continue To Show Benefit With AMD Zen 5/5C


While Intel's upcoming Core Ultra Series 2 'Lunar Lake' laptop processors are doing away with Hyper Threading (HT) and instead focusing more on additional E cores.

Today's article is quite straight forward and is looking at the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 performance on the ASUS Zenbook S 16 at its defaults and then repeating the tests after setting the "nosmt" kernel parameter and rebooting to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading. During the benchmarking the CPU thermals and SoC package power consumption were monitored as well for seeing the impact from SMT. Page 1 - IntroductionPage 2 - oneAPI Rendering Toolkit SoftwarePage 3 - Blender + V-RAY + Indigo RenderersPage 4 - LuxCore + Other RenderersPage 5 - NAMD + QuickSilver + easyWave + GraphicsMagickPage 6 - AVIF, ASTC, Code CompilationPage 7 - John The Ripper, OpenSSL, Stress-NG, PyTorchPage 8 - Geo Mean + CPU Power + CPU Thermals

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