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While the benchmarks shows AMD is doing well, I wonder How much disadvantage are AMD Zen getting with the current compiler and software optimizes for Intel?

I am still eagerly waiting for Zen + Vega APU.




Stuff using Intel's compiler or maths libraries is going to suck, somewhat.

Other stuff, that's just using MSVC/gcc/clang/llvm code targeted to Skylake/Haswell etc will run just fine, as Zen's microarch is similar enough.

AMD's own compiler is like a 3% performance difference for us, compared to regular clang. No big influence, basically.


Zen+Vega APUs will probably come early next year and I've seen anecdotal reports suggesting to hold off for Zen+Navi in late 2018/early 2019.




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