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Chipguy: AOTS is a big part of AMDs benchmarketing

AOTS is heavily optimized for AMD graphics chips. It is also one of the few DX12 benchmark that AMD relies on heavily for marketing purposes. It may or may not represent game cpu performance on other games. And very few games are CPU bound and even fewer us more than a quad core. DX12 is still hardly used as well. Most people can pair a Core i5 from any of the last 5 generations and an Nvidia 1060(or even a 960) and get excellent performance at 1080p. Actually technically you could do pretty fine with a dual core i3 with HT since most games don't thread well typically. What interests me is that they are only getting 2.8/3.2 w turbo. Guessing purely on their GPU competitiveness with NVIDIA, that GF process may hold them back significantly. But time will tell. Given that WCCFtech is a bit of a gossip site it may not mean anything. And that slide is something they cooked up, not an official AMD deal. All they found was a lone entry for AOTS and supposedly Zen and they "compared them". They could be right, but they may have missed something significant.