The Zen in Ryzen: A Tale of Cache, Compute Complexes & Scheduling

I’m back! With a new mic, but it’s still crap... On topic, back during the HotChips conference last year, it should have been clear that Zen needed the Windows scheduler to treat it different than most consumer CPUs. Ryzen is actually a Server/HPC CPU in disguise and there’s pros and cons to it’s design. Hopefully this video help you guys better understand the Zen architecture and so you can objectively analyze the results you see in an informed manner. For further clarity, Ryzen itself with the twin C