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Originally Posted by AphexDreamer
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It's because the FPU is getting used for this benchmark. Keep in mind that each module only has one FPU so without FMA3 optimizations you're only going to see 3-cores worth of performance out of it. However if this used fixed point instead of floating point, this could use the integer cores which are faster in general and performances significantly better on AMD's newer processors. Fixed point also offers a higher level of precision, floating point is inaccurate because of how it converts decimals to and from base 2 integers.