Soldato
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I am genuinely dissapointed that while yes, single core performance has improved with Zen2. We have not seen movement in each product tier. We've now gone from a 14nm low power node to a 7nm performance node and the 3600 will still have the same core count as the 3600. We've only seen an increase in maximum cores at the highest end with the introduction of new SKU's.
I was at first but after the announcement I thought about it, Why should they shift the stack ?
Intels i9 chip is an 8 core, why would AMD need to drop a 12 core product into the R7 tier, they are releasing an 8 core chip with a significant improvement over the last gen.
I am also bewildered that both the 37** and 38** are 8 core chips (and they have very far apart TDP's). This means at the 8 core tier, they'll be 4 skus (likely) with the 3700,3700x,3800 and 3800x
To me that does not seem to have been a likely plan, as what will the difference between for instance the 3700x and the 3800 be. In my opinion there must be late stage issues in the manufacturing process for that to have happened because I fail to see why AMD's plan all along would have been to have 4 skus at the 8 core tier.
What do you all think? (again sorry if this has already been talked about its hard to keep up!)
I can't see them having 4 SKUs, most likely 3, what would a 3800 offer over a 3700x which is already really close in clock speed to the 3800x.
I think the reason the 3800x is high tdp and price is that they have left overclocking headroom on this chip, otherwise it makes no sense to me to release 2 chips with only a 100mhz clock speed difference.
It means that AMD will start to overclock again, whereas had they released it 2-400mhz higher with no overclocking headroom its just another thing people can use to throw at AMD as to why Intel are better, I think they have basicly "attacked" Intel from every angle here in order to truly beat them.