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"Am I wrong to conclude that over-clocking Zen 2 is a waste of effort? If pushing it all the way up to 5GHz barely helps, why mess around at all?\n\n\nIf you stated \"barely helps in games\", then you might have a point, but in general, wide spread of workloads, your conclusion is not correct. Overclocking Zen 2 brings about linear performance improvement in workloads like rendering, video encoding, decompression and many more. Most older game engines are very dependant on memory latency, but there are game engines which would still scale on Zen 2 despite IF architecture. \nFor next-gen game engines, designed with Zen 2 CPU cores inside consoles in mind, I think bottleneck will be largely mitigated by developers. Let's don't forget, Intel processors are moving away from ring-bus on the desktop as well in the near future."
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