What is the exact number of Hz when lying in marketing becomes a problem? Or is it percentage based? Is 1000 Hz ok? 278 Hz? 1%? 5.43%? The great performance is still there, either way, right? Why not sell "up to 6 GHz" CPUs? It would look great on the box. They could charge extra for "up to 7 GHz" SKUs. Sure, it may in reality hit lower than the up to 6 one, but money is money, amirite?otoh, the intel fans (shills) would also say it's nothing. Maybe it actually IS nothing, regardless of whether it happens on an AMD or Intel processor? Feel free to quote me when it happens and I don't throw shit at the fan.
Edit: honestly, I don't think it is exactly nothing. Clearly, there was an issue, and AMD is working to resolve it. 100MHz is not huge, especially when one thread is only hitting it 1% of the time, but depending on how it is handled (in the os and microcode) it can make a big difference in certain workloads. Not in time to completion, necessarily, but in other less predictable ways. The problem is that there isn't really any way to show how this actually affects people in real workloads, and benchmarks + monitoring programs only show part of the problem... sometimes.