[adrian_b]

Even Puget's data, which due to their conservative MB configurations have much less Raptor Lake defects than others with aggressive settings, show an essential difference between the defects of Zen 4 and the defects of Raptor Lake.

The defects of Zen 4 are random manufacturing defects, so most of them are detected by Puget after assembling and testing their systems, before selling them to customers.

On the other hand, most of the Raptor Lake defects happen after some time after selling them to the customers, which implies some kind of wearing mechanism, which either can affect any Raptor Lake CPU or perhaps only CPUs that have some kind of latent defects.

Because the Raptor Lake defects happen after some time, it is likely that their number will continue to raise among the already sold systems and the same statistics recomputed after some months might show a higher number of Raptor Lake defects than now.