[Libre-soc-dev] maybe get ryzen 7950x for faster compilation and avx512

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 09:14 Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> the ryzen 7950x reviews went up today, it looks quite good, compilation 2x
> faster than the 3900x i currently have.
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> I was wondering if libre-soc wanted to help me upgrade (libre-soc doesn't
> have to pay for all of it), there's budget available in
> https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774
>

I ended up buying a Ryzen 7950X and an AM5 motherboard and 64GB of DDR5 and
a better heatsink. it cost me USD $1,355.45 (including sales tax).

Luke, can we decide if Libre-SOC wants to pay for any of that?

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> it has avx512 support which would be useful to test against.
>

this ^ and that Linux doesn't yet have great support for P/E-cores on x86
is why i decided against buying the 13900k instead, despite slightly faster
single-core/multi-core performance in some applications.

Jacob

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