Someone made an effort to work out which are the latest AMD chips that were released just prior to the PSP (i.e. non-spy chips). The linked article gives a list resulting from their efforts.
This is interesting because intel began their spy chips in 2008. So an AMD from 2013 likely well outperforms the last of the spy-chip-free intels.
But this is just the 1st step. Now it would be useful to know which devices contain these AMD chips from 2013. In particular, laptops and mini PCs would be interesting. The search must be painful because ads for hardware tend not to mention the code names. In fact, h/w makers were not proud of their AMD selection and might altogether not mention AMD.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, that page renders with a single column of lists for me, and is also written in a bit of a confusing way. The author is definitely infinitely better at English than I am at German, but it’s clear it isn’t their native language.
Anyway, I have an Asus KGPE-D16 with a couple of Opteron 6272 (Bulldozer) CPUs in it, but I think that was because Libreboot had problems with the 63XX (Piledriver) at the time (since resolved), apparently, not because Piledriver was off-limits due to the inclusion of a PSP.
My goal was to get the fastest fully-trustworthy computer ever made [or reasonably close to it: IIRC, 6272s were much cheaper than similar chips with a few hundred more MHz], and that’s basically it. The absolute fastest would be a KGPE-D16 paired with Opteron 6386 SEs, I think.
That said, you asked about a laptop or mini PC. Brute-forcing performance with 32 cores of server hardware is one thing, but I’m not sure a 2/3/4-core desktop or mobile Bulldozer-family chip is going to have acceptable performance in 2026.
I think for people who don’t use highly multi-threaded tasks, the lower core count Piledriver CPU’s would be a better choice, as the 6272 is likely going to use a lot more power at idle, and each core is clocked significantly slower than a lower core count chip, exacerbating the already low single thread performance of those chips.
The desktop chips also overclocked quite well, I recall pushing my FX-6300 to 4.5ghz without much issue, and the same for the 8-core FX-8320. Though I’m unsure if Libreboot supports overclocking (if not, than having higher default clocks would be even more important, IMO).
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You accidentally pasted my quote again where you meant to put the link URL. What video were you trying to cite?