>>714195228
The basal concept of thermal margin is taking advantage of a material property which is applicable to all transistors: Lower temps equals less leakage current, and less leakage means slighly less heat. XFR trys to momentarily utilize this to push clocks just 100mhz higher here and there when the chip thinks it can get away with it.
Intel has a nearly exact same system to. The higher core count intel chips have a "preferred core" which can clock slightly higher than others, and this has to be identified in qualification, its not a given that one core in a specific area will always be better.
>>714195310
A youtube video would serve you better when it comes to the degradation that some owners of 13th or 14th gen intel users experience. There is a lot of material science behind it, and there is a very pointed corporate decision behind it to push binned chips right up to the edge of what they can tolerate while still being worth selling.
Is my CPU *really* okay with running at 5.5ghz with an NT workload? Probably not. Should a company sell a product claiming it can do that? Probably not. Will those through retailer shipped units last after years? Maybe 90 percent, but 10 percent is an insane failure rate. Is intel as an operating business entity comfortable fucking over potentially millions of their own customers? Probably.
