alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 3 months agoAMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backendwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareconciselyverbose@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoIt’s not “because we’re not fiddling” with anything. It’s because Windows’ scheduler is objectively broken and not scheduling workloads correctly.
minus-squareSplashJackson@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoCan you elaborate? How is it breaking?
minus-squareconciselyverbose@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoIt assigns workloads to the virtual core (from SMT) before properly distributing them to other cores. Source This is not an issue on Linux because they schedule threads correctly. But I guess this post is about windows only doing some other branch prediction correctly on some admin mode, so I guess that way too.
It’s not “because we’re not fiddling” with anything.
It’s because Windows’ scheduler is objectively broken and not scheduling workloads correctly.
Can you elaborate? How is it breaking?
It assigns workloads to the virtual core (from SMT) before properly distributing them to other cores. Source
This is not an issue on Linux because they schedule threads correctly.
But I guess this post is about windows only doing some other branch prediction correctly on some admin mode, so I guess that way too.