AMD's next chip leaked as '35% faster.' cool — now here's the part the headline conveniently skips

a Medusa Point engineering sample smoked AMD's current flagship in a leaked Geekbench run. it was also quietly clocked 300MHz higher than the chip…

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Ravi Malhotra · Hardware Editor

The comparison everyone's headline skips

The 35% figure compares the Medusa Point sample at its highest observed clock against Strix Point chips running roughly 300MHz slower. Some of that lead is just clock speed, not architecture. The…

Why engineering samples always look better than they'll ship

Leaked ES silicon is cherry-picked and unrepresentative by nature — an early bin, tested without the thermal and power constraints of an actual shipping laptop chassis, roughly a year and a half…

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