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[likeclockwork]

What driver is responsible for assigning specific games to specific CPU CCDs?

Is this a real thing? Is it available on Linux? Or am I sticking with Intel?

[goosedragons]

It's the CPU scheduler. You can easily avoid this by just not buying an X3D variant. Recent Intel CPUs can have the same problem where processes get assigned to the efficiency cores instead of performance cores if the right scheduler isn't used (like by using Windows 10 or an old Linux distro without explicit support)

[W1zzardTPU]

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d/5.htm...

[jrmg]

Is there a point to going beyond 60 updates/s in Factorio? Because if not the system seems to be doing the correct thing and using less power. I hope AMD isn’t causing higher power usage for all users just to game some benchmarks!

[FeepingCreature]

It's not like the CPU looks at the FPS to decide how to clock. Factorio has extremely variable CPU demand as your base grows.

[Filligree]

60 updates/second only happens while you're still running a small base.

[jnwatson]

Megabases can get quite processor intensive. Small bases with high ups are a proxy for megabases with reasonable ups.

[brucethemoose2]

Factorio (unfortunately) isn't a very typical benchmark.

The "run AAAs at low graphics at 1080p" trend among review sites is kinda stupid though.