The above benchmarks were run with Fedora's default Powersave governor.s243a wrote:Another random thought, devices are getting smaller and smaller and have less surface area to disapate heat. This slows down CPUs. If this slows down the CPU enough then maybe it will run as slow as the rest of the components.
I just used CPUFreqUtility to set the CPU's to run with the Performance governor and by raising the minimum frequency to 3.0 GHz the CPU CryptoHash score rose to 3894 with pti=on. Which is 23% faster than with pti=off on the Powersave governor.
However FPU Raytracing on the Performance governor with minimum frequency set as above slowed down to 47 seconds. Meanwhile, gkrellm showed the cpu temps rising to 140+. The temps never passed 130 on FPU Raytracing with the default Powersave governor.
Perhaps, as you suggest, thermal throttling is happening in FPU Raytracing.
The CPU's on this machine are cooled only by air. Next week I'll install decent liquid cooling CPU heatsinks and then benchmark them again, with and without pti=on, trying both governors.
If, in order to compete against AMD's Ryzen and Epyc CPU's, Intel Xeon CPU's must use a performance governor and liquid cooling...then Intel is facing catastrophe.
I wonder if the CEO of Intel acted on insider foreknowledge of this evidently catastrophic bug when he sold off all his Intel stock, retaining only just enough to qualify to keep his CEO job, last November?--see
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-ap ... 00267.html