Topic on Glossary talk:Central Processing Unit (CPU)

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I'm not talking about the usual just-so-frequent incompatibilities, crashes, or other obvious problems, and not even about the various hacked overclocking tools. But something a bit more in the shadow:

Llano has quite reduced DIV/IDIV performance (I'm really not the the guy recommending to undo errata fixes, but considering all the recent guarding around speculative execution.. maybe there is a chance?)

Bulldozer has crippled x87 performance (there are no public errata regarding the feature, so this might be all free real estate?)

Possibly every architecture before Ryzen could hit the TDP ceiling before even reaching the maximum frequencies ~~(unclear whether this couldn't just be specific to some motherboards and/or workload though)~~

ok this is probably just Turbo Core (whatever its versioning) being dynamically adjusted according to the current load. It can be fooled then, and some OEMs may actually be doing this from the firmware (Turbo CPB and Turbo Performance Boost Ratio being some likely names?). Or at least I can't explain why else the same CPU getting downclocked for clear TDP reasons would be reported elsewhere happily running dozens of watts above the official limit.

Steamroller CPUs are throttled when their iGPU is in use (which is not as bad as it sounds usually, even in games it should be hard to be CPU-limited without a dedicated graphics card after all, but it is not impossible). If a modded BIOS isn't available, editing p-states and disabling APM should be enough.

this is unlike Trinity being able to sustain even turbo on both simultaneously (though with its idiot balls), Llano just barely knowing how to turbo its CPU, Jaguar somehow regressing with just one CPU out of stone age (Puma came back with the very interesting concept of frequency sensitivity though) and Bobcat being a (very) mixed bag.

And I could swear I knew more, but time was hard on my memory.

p.s. Ryzen is so complex and wide that you'd need a manual just to understand the stock situation.