SMT Performance Benchmarks Continue To Show Benefit With AMD Zen 5/5C
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 2 August 2024 at 11:56 AM EDT. Page 6 of 8. 93 Comments.
Across various other multi-threaded applications, SMT was still making a measurable difference to performance without any additional power costs on this AMD Zen 5 Strix Point laptop.
For code compilation workloads with using multiple jobs, most tested software did see shorter build times with leaving SMT enabled. Only in a few cases depending upon the size of the application did SMT not help.