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Raptor Lake Leaks + Intel 4 developments

Dark maybe first for a change. Not like Vince is distracted by gpu’s anymore.

I’ll def let others test drive apex first from different batches. Bianbao says apex is fixed but we wil have to see if it’s QVL for 7200 A Die. If not, buyer beware.
Seen a post on social media regards the Dark, will be a slight delay after launch. Usually expensive as well intially for us Brits.
 
So people are excited for A-Die but which games actually show decent benefit as Jufes recently done a test where it was like 2% ahead of B-die or is it more a synthetic benchmark only thing?
 
So people are excited for A-Die but which games actually show decent benefit as Jufes recently done a test where it was like 2% ahead of B-die or is it more a synthetic benchmark only thing?

A few things on DDR5. Subtimings are much more important than on DDR4. Wish that wasn't the case but they are. His are quite loose as based on his BW figures. With him, any timing he doesn't understand = waste of time. Back when he started, anything beyond primaries were a waste. Then he understood what tfaw/trfc/trefi do so those became important and so on.

Another point is his CPU OC is quite weak. The faster the CPU runs, the more and faster it needs to be fed by the memory. 5.2 is just slow. HT on doesn't help things when testing gaming...

The 3rd part is ofcourse where the bottleneck sits. Something like Spiderman with RTX is going really benefit but CS:GO which mainly loves clock speed, cache and branch prediction, is going to benefit way less.

The main point of optimizing your system is that you give it the best possible chance to perform in any scenario.
 
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The Frame Chasers guy reckons performance in games doesn't scale much beyond ~5.5ghz (he says he's tested it at higher frequencies), and probably not in Zen 4 either. Pretty interesting.

So, clocking your CPU to 5.5ghz on AMD or Intel is fairly ideal (with the gain presumably being more noticeable with fewer cores).

Maybe that's due to the fact that so many games now are designed to make use of 6/8 cores (sometimes even more)?

He also predicts the arrival of 8800 d*** die, which will no doubt increase gaming performance by 1000%.
 
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3200KSP will be the best, don't be silly. Worth waiting 10 years for it, and posting 10,000 posts a day discussing the merits of waiting for such a chip.
g67575 mentioning the Zen 4 3D chips is not as silly as you make out and shows how much you lack logical and rational thinking. Considering the 3D chips will be released around the same time as the rest of the 13th gen Intels CPUs including the KS, it is actually a very reasonable statement.
 
But that doesn't explain how was I wrong. The stock guidelines from intel (you can check their website btw) is pl1 125/240 56 TAU. Other than that, of course mobo manafacturers are free to change it, but stock is stock, and in stock configuration it is absolutely true that the 12900k is more efficient than the 7950x also at stock :D

you still disagree with almost every review that touches on efficiency for example...



But yea every efficiency calculation is still wrong :)

edit: In these charts which I am more likely to believe the 12900k is beaten out in efficiency by ryzen 3000, 5000 and 7000 sku's. But we can of course blindly ignore these efficiency calculations from reviewers all over and continue blindly believing that the 12000 series of intel chips are some sort of efficiency masterpiece.
 
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you still disagree with almost every review that touches on efficiency for example...
No I don't. Club386 at the actual pl 1 of 125w and scored 24k on the 12900k in CBR23. Which makes it more efficient than a stock 7950x. PERIOD. You can't argue, it's just a fact. /Next
 
No I don't. Club386 at the actual pl 1 of 125w and scored 24k on the 12900k in CBR23. Which makes it more efficient than a stock 7950x. PERIOD. You can't argue, it's just a fact. /Next

Yea you do, you didn't try and explain the image above but instead take a random site that agrees with you, in this case "club386", and use them to prove your point. Tell me in the image I posted with all at stock what is more efficient between all the following AMD SKU's (5950x, 5900x, 5600x, 7950x, 3700x, 5800x3d, 3600, 5800x) and the 12900k? Happy to go grab many, many more efficiency calculations from trusted reviewers and we can all learn how Bencher calculates efficiency. Perhaps even correct the above so we can rubbish gamers nexus numbers?
 
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@Bencher Why is this so important to you? @Vince is right.

No I don't. Club386 at the actual pl 1 of 125w and scored 24k on the 12900k in CBR23. Which makes it more efficient than a stock 7950x. PERIOD. You can't argue, it's just a fact. /Next

7950X scores 30K at 65 watts. 6K higher at half the power.
 
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Yea you do, you didn't try and explain the image above but instead take a random site that agrees with you, in this case "club386", and use them to prove your point. Tell me in the image I posted with all at stock what is more efficient between all the following AMD SKU's (5950x, 5900x, 5600x, 7950x, 3700x, 5800x3d, 3600, 5800x) and the 12900k? Happy to go grab many, many more efficiency calculations from trusted reviewers and we can all learn how Bencher calculates efficiency. Perhaps even correct the above so we can rubbish gamers nexus numbers?
What's there to explain, it's obvious he is running with unlimited TAU, lol
 
@Bencher Why is this so important to you? @Vince is right.



7950X scores 30K at 65 watts. 6K higher at half the power.
It's not important. I just noticed that the 7950x stock is less efficient than a 12900k at 125/241 56 Tau Intel stock specification, so i mentioned it. That's all. It seems to be important to the amd side cause they keep personally attacking me about an actual fact! LOL
 
It's not important. I just noticed that the 7950x stock is less efficient than a 12900k at 125/241 56 Tau Intel stock specification, so i mentioned it. That's all. It seems to be important to the amd side cause they keep personally attacking me about an actual fact! LOL

What? at stock the 7950X scores 40% higher at about the same power.
 
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All the reviews I watched have the stock 12900k using 241w for CB23 score of 27k

All of them must be lying

Stock 7950x 225w CB23 score of around 38k

If you want to start playing the tweaking game 7950x wipes the floor
 
Stock 12900K, 27,000 points at 240 watts

Stock 7950X, 38,000 points at 240 watts

7950X at 65 watts 30,000 points
7950X at 125 watts 34,000 points

It doesn't matter which was you cut it the 7950X wins the efficiency argument.
It just is what is it is.
 
AMD kinda let the chip down out of the box very aggressive power it has a lot of room to tweak now we starting to see more tweaking it
 
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