engineering samples or review samples
they're cherry picked so that the media outlets
like Linus tech tips will see inflated performance and overclocking numbers so
that you yes you jerry will get suckered
into buying a new CPU every year right
well that's what people keep telling us and
this common knowledge has been around for years now so today in our inaugural
installment of [ __ ] viewers say we are going to either prove that there
is something to this or debunk this myth once and for all
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so here's how we decided to run our test we grabbed our sample core i5 8400 and
not to play favorites our sample ryzen 5
1600x then we went to the local nci
sorry memory express to buy retail chips of the same to
compare them against for your peace of mind we will upload the entire uncut
clip of us buying the chips and running
our tests on them we're gonna have that linked below anyway let's talk about why
it might make sense or might not for a company to seed reviewers a superior
sample now the obvious answer we hear all the
time is that they would get articles boasting of better performance numbers
or a better overall user experience in
that initial oh so important wave of
launch videos and articles enticing
consumers to open up their wallets all
while not actually having to provide that level of performance or polish at
retail but conspiracy theories aside would this
actually make business sense imagine this you've got a lemonade stand where
you sell the freshest tastiest lemonade on the block
on day one and then you swap it out with
lemon pledge now a lot of people are gonna show up to
buy on the second day but as soon as your reputation for selling what is
literally furniture polish spreads the kids across the street who were selling
cheap powdered lemonade the whole time are gonna take the bulk of the market
share now we're not saying this has never
happened think back to watch dogs and no man's sky at e3 both ubisoft and sony
respectively showed off beautifully complex worlds with tons of graphical
detail and then both of them ended up being
significantly simplified upon release
now while in some industries it is possible to get away with this kind of
bs in general the negative pr has the
potential to completely stall future sales so it is not a risk to be taken
lightly and in electronics the up to
multi-billion dollar investment that goes into designing and fabricating a
processor design makes this kind of switcheroo an economic impossibility
like it's not a different paint job so then let's look at one of the other
theories maybe they're just taking golden samples off of what is otherwise
the regular production line now that one is much more likely
but it doesn't really hold up to closer scrutiny either from my experience and
others earlier cpus are produced at the tail
end of the manufacturing learning process when viable yields are lower and
compared to the more mature units that come later
can actually require more voltage to
maintain a specific clock speed not to mention that they might have
poorer memory compatibility or might output more heat at the same performance
levels even the couple of weeks between early
sample shipping out and retail availability can result in improvements
now there have been and there always will be exceptions to this but it is far
more likely that we are dealing with the same silicon lottery as any other CPU
because you got to remember even on the same wafer no two processors will have
identical characteristics so if it doesn't make any sense why do people
still think it's happening most of the time as far as we can tell
it just seems to be a fanboy argument justifying why someone disagrees with
the results being published by the dishonest
media and frankly we're just so tired of hearing
it that we not once but twice
the first time we bunged up the footage so we had to start over including buying
two more cpus Anthony
not once but twice went out and bought
these cpus so we could show you this
tldr for gaming we found basically no
variance in frame rates even in directx 12 mode while synthetics actually
favored our retail chips as for productivity tests on the Intel
side our chips traded blows back and forth but it's not a clear-cut victory
for either side and we put this down to normal chip or even run to run variants
due to the dynamic and reactive nature of turbo boost and then as for team red
it was pretty much even across the board so for better or for worse AMD appears
to be shipping exactly the same product today that they were in april of last
year and then to back that up we even tried overclocking both of our AMD chips
our Intel ones were locked but both of our AMD chips hit identical clocks at
identical voltages and identical temperatures they even crashed at
identical settings so in summary then
this conspiracy theory is busted for the
two major CPU players and while nothing that we've said today
is going to prevent people from making these arguments in the future what i
hope is that it has at least armed the rest of you with the ammunition that you
need to shut them down once and for all
it doesn't make business sense it doesn't make engineering sense it just
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