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AMD Zen 5 rumours

Power efficiency is nice I guess, but seriously disappointing overall. Not very attractive against 7000 series pricing at all.

Be interesting to see what the 9950x does with the extra power but expecting that to be underwhelming too.
 
HUB claiming that even enabling PBO gives only a 2-3% boost in gaming for an extra 25% in power usage.
 
Cob said:
HUB claiming that even enabling PBO gives only a 2-3% boost in gaming for an extra 25% in power usage.
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edit - Seems the host had a brainfart
 
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The performance is really strange. In some cases you have a 6 core 65 watt part breathing down the neck of a 105 watt 12 core and others cases the performance is miles off.
 
I want to upgrade an old Xeon based 3060Ti that is used for casual gaming and the Xeon just can't keep up with the 3060ti

I was awaiting these to see if I should go AM5 route but after these initial reviews I'm thinking I could save a whole load of money and go AM4, 5700x3D route for not much difference gaming performance wise

saves quite a bit of money once you consider motherboard cost, cheaper DDR4 memory etc
 
Buckster said:
I want to upgrade an old Xeon based 3060Ti that is used for casual gaming and the Xeon just can't keep up with the 3060ti

I was awaiting these to see if I should go AM5 route but after these initial reviews I'm thinking I could save a whole load of money and go AM4, 5700x3D route for not much difference gaming performance wise

saves quite a bit of money once you consider motherboard cost, cheaper DDR4 memory etc
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Build an AM5 7600 system I would say rather than AM4.
 
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Build an AM5 7600 system I would say rather than AM4.
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thankyou - that was another consideration - just wondered if the extra cores + extra cache will be more beneficial for gaming over time vs the clock speeds and core performance of the 7600x

especially with new FS2024 (hopefully use more cores) etc
 
Buckster said:
I want to upgrade an old Xeon based 3060Ti that is used for casual gaming and the Xeon just can't keep up with the 3060ti

I was awaiting these to see if I should go AM5 route but after these initial reviews I'm thinking I could save a whole load of money and go AM4, 5700x3D route for not much difference gaming performance wise

saves quite a bit of money once you consider motherboard cost, cheaper DDR4 memory etc
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As above go with 7600 it matches the 5800x3d in gaming and you'll be set to upgrade in the future to AM5 x3d part
 
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thankyou - that was another consideration - just wondered if the extra cores + extra cache will be more beneficial for gaming over time vs the clock speeds and core performance of the 7600x

especially with new FS2024 (hopefully use more cores) etc
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On average the 7600 matches the x3d am4 parts in gaming but FS simulator loves x3d cache and really shows, I still would do new build with AM5 over AM4, you can drop in faster AM5 x3d also both will be getting held back using 3060ti
 
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On average the 7600 matches the x3d am4 parts in gaming but FS simulator loves x3d cache and really shows, I still would do new build with AM5 over AM4, you can drop in faster AM5 x3d also both will be getting held back using 3060ti
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thanks very much - I'll do some more research

considering the current CPU is a Xeon 1225v3 (4 core no hyperthreading) any will be a massive upgrade !
 
As we here only think about 'gaming' and our prized personal desktop efficiency gains don't always seem a particular benefit, but I wonder if AMD are purposely seeking efficiency as an advantage to further their corporate sales
 
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As we here only think about 'gaming' and our prized personal desktop efficiency gains don't always seem a particular benefit, but I wonder if AMD are purposely seeking efficiency as an advantage to further their corporate sales
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Probably exactly this. Servers and laptops are where the money is, and both of those benefit from a more efficient architecture... makes for a very boring release for us though :P
 
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