Curious if you guys did any testing on the Win 5 (or Strix Halo in general) with some CPU cores disabled. AMD chose to go for broke on the CPU side, with two CCDs full of "real" fat Zen 5 cores with 512-bit AVX units and all. But - those take up a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of games, are totally unneeded. What happens when you completely disable one of the CCDs - taking it down to 8 cores/16 threads? This would not only match PS5 (and the rumored PS6 handheld) in cores/threads, but the real question is how much extra power could then be sent to the GPU to further boost framerates?
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Re: GPD Win 5 Brings PS5-Class Perf To PC Handhelds
Curious if you guys did any testing on the Win 5 (or Strix Halo in general) with some CPU cores disabled. AMD chose to go for broke on the CPU side, with two CCDs full of "real" fat Zen 5 cores with 512-bit AVX units and all. But - those take up a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of games, are totally unneeded. What happens when you completely disable one of the CCDs - taking it down to 8 cores/16 threads? This would not only match PS5 (and the rumored PS6 handheld) in cores/threads, but the real question is how much extra power could then be sent to the GPU to further boost framerates?