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AMD Zen 5 rumours

Well that was fun watch. Really don't understsand how AMD got to this point. The release is a waste of time and monies and has done nothing for them. What a complete mess all the way through. Genuinely previous gen consistently coming out as the better option.


Meh, i think his arguments for this video are so marginal that i think he's starting to lose the plot for content at this point.

Is he wrong, no, is it a big deal, no, was it worth my time watching this, no. Did i lose IQ point for sitting through this,. probably.
 
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Meh, i think his arguments for this video are so marginal that i think he's starting to lose the plot for content at this point.

Is he wrong, no, is it a big deal, no, was it worth my time watching this, no. Did i lose IQ point for sitting through this,. probably.
Nah I think this is very on point. Something that doesn't perform as well and ends up worse in the one metric everyone been shouting at is important to clarify and do well and clear with proper data. We don't get that often and is important.

Not sure why you think you'd loose IQ points with that. They aren't marginal. There 20w difference in some those things worse and people were claiming 30% better power usage during gaming as reason there isn't a performance increase and even a slight regression.
 
Nah I think this is very on point. Something that doesn't perform as well and ends up worse in the one metric everyone been shouting at is important to clarify and do well and clear with proper data. We don't get that often and is important.

Not sure why you think you'd loose IQ points with that. They aren't marginal. There 20w difference in some those things worse and people were claiming 30% better power usage during gaming as reason there isn't a performance increase and even a slight regression.

I'll sum it up in an alternative video title, "Zen 5 sometimes unnecessarily blasts the VID higher than Zen 4 making it appear very slightly less efficient in some cases"
 
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People will buy Zen 4 instead, until they sell out, then the prices drop on these and people switch to buying these, at which point the BIOS for them will have matured. So..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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Doesn't surprise me to see that change given a lot of the reviews showed the lean 65 watt TDP stopped the 9700X from boosting to it's maximum clockrate but it's something they should have picked up from their own testing. This is what happens when companies have their strategies set by sales and marketing types rather then by engineers.
 
what a strange panic move
AFTER most reviews showed that PBO doesn't really fix much except multithreaded productivity, for which nobody buys 8 cores

Oh..... ffs.... AMD need to stop reacting to tech jurnoes, it was fine just as it was, its for people looking for a low power CPU, it has the option to run at 105 watts if you set it like that, if anything the should have just released a Ryzen 9700XT with a 105 watts TDP.
 

In total I ran nearly 400 benchmarks. When taking the geometric mean of all the raw performance results, the Ryzen 9 9950X came out to being 19.6% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X. The Ryzen 9 9900X meanwhile was 21.5% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X across this wide mix of workloads. The Ryzen 9 9950X was 33% faster than the Intel Core i9 14900K performance overall and even the Ryzen 9 9900X was 18% faster than the Core i9 14900K

Simply put, I am extremely impressed with the Ryzen 9 9900 series. If you are a creator, developer, or just doing any heavy lifting on your desktop across a range of workloads, the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X proved to be terrific options. These new AMD Ryzen 9900 series processors deliver great generational uplift and better power efficiency than the prior Ryzen 9 7900 series parts and the Intel Core 14th Gen competition. At $499 USD for the Ryzen 9 9900X and $649 USD for the Ryzen 9 9950X these processors are also priced fair.
 
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