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Yes, it looks like that was on a 16C part? Not for meI think my 5800X3D should last me until Zen5 for what I use it for. Looking forward to see how people get on with it though vs Intel's offerings.
Lol, if you can afford it why not. I have too many competing interests/demands on the cash so I'll be watching from the sidelines
Zen4 looks amazing.
Didn't they just troll Intel with that render benchmark? I mean it'll be September before they launch, so in theory Intel could release Raptor Lake before that, but that means the 13900K with 24c/32t would need to beat the 12900K by 31% with only extra e-cores and some cache, and we know cache doesn't do much for that type of application, and that would only then match a pre-production sample of Zen4 16c/32t part, but you are buying the last CPU available on that socket vs the first on AMD's AM5.
Going to be interesting to see how this pans out over the next few months, especially for those people on the precipice of upgrading.
To be fair most 'pc' companies have been saying this of late.... the issue is there's still only so much fab space to go around so while it might be better (and hopefully not as interesting to scalpers/crypto this time) I'm still expecting there to be reduced supply on gpu's and cpu's
Supply and demand. If there is less demand from miners and they start dumping cards we could be in the situation where everyone who wants a card has one with some to spare.
I think we have seen the end of this design iteration of Zen, Zen 4 looks like Zen 3 on steroids with more cache and faster clocks without much change to base design. AMD seem to have spent most of the previous 2 years designing and building out the AM5 platform and working on Zen 5 which will likely be similar to Alder Lake in terms of using a hybrid design of performance and lower power cores.
True but Zen+ through to Zen 3 and probably Zen 4 are just re-works and improvements over the orignal Zen architecture (I say 'just' that's not to put anyone down as the improvements have been fantastic but to emphasise it's not a new, new design from the ground up) so it does look like Jim Keller's Zen is now at the end of road and AMD needs to switch to new design for Zen 5.
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