Intel has a Pretty Big Problem..

[Rroff]

3950X demolished everything on X299, Threadripper 3000 was just humiliation. Threadripper 2000 was already putting the hurt on X299. And I've already said that outside of ultra high-end gaming with the 9900K, Ryzen 3000 took the crown in every meaningful metric from 8th and 9th Gen.

You are as bad as jigger sometimes - the Intel 10980XE (and similar) was out when the 3950X was and while the AMD chip was cheaper and generally (but not always) faster it wasn't so much faster overall as to say it demolished it. The Threadrippers were monsters but also way more expensive than the X299 chips.

 

[Grim5]

I went from a 8700k to a 3950x, it was amazing. Felt like a bunch of free performance fell into my lap at the time, all that performance for so little power draw and a low price.
I very briefly considered the 10980XE, but as a consumer I didn't need the platform, so it was directly comparable and it cost a lot of money and used too much power, a sign of things to come for Intel.

Fast forward, Intel's HEDT line is dead and they are still trying to climb out that hole

 

[Rroff]

Fast forward, Intel's HEDT line is dead and they are still trying to climb out that hole

Yeah coming from what personally I consider peak HEDT - where provisioning of stuff was generous and/or forward thinking - it sucks, especially as the desktop platforms now are so meagre and give you just enough for the minimum and no more.

 

[Journey]

The Threadrippers were monsters but also way more expensive than the X299 chips.

Eh?

I think you are somehow misremembering what made the Threadripper 'destroy' Intel HEDT, it was price to performance

 

[Rroff]

Eh?

I think you are somehow misremembering what made the Threadripper 'destroy' Intel HEDT, it was price to performance

Your image doesn't make much sense in that context - by the time the 3950X was out Intel had released the 10th gen on X299 at half the price of the 9xxx chips. At an earlier point Threadrippers had a good price/performance advantage but not at this point.

 

[jonneymendoza]

3950X demolished everything on X299, Threadripper 3000 was just humiliation. Threadripper 2000 was already putting the hurt on X299. And I've already said that outside of ultra high-end gaming with the 9900K, Ryzen 3000 took the crown in every meaningful metric from 8th and 9th Gen.

Why would I exclude Ryzen 5000 when that was the contemporary of 10th and 11th Gen? Oh, and 11th Gen wasn't Skylake. It was Rocket Lake. Seriously, go back through all the reviews of Ryzen 3000. Go through the old threads here. Talk to actual owners of Ryzen 3000 on these forums. You can say "not true" all you want, just go back and read.

Anyway, this is veering seriously off topic. Go back and read or don't, it doesn't matter any more.

I have a thread ripper 3960x and it is a monster. It's a Shane it is not good for gaming though and I feel my 3090 is bottleneck because of my cpu?

 

[jigger]

Your image doesn't make much sense in that context - by the time the 3950X was out Intel had released the 10th gen on X299 at half the price of the 9xxx chips. At an earlier point Threadrippers had a good price/performance advantage but not at this point.

You’re not making much sense. Intel was forced to exit to HEDT because of Zen.

 

[WARburton]

You’re not making much sense. Intel was forced to exit to HEDT because of Zen.

That’s irrelevant. Your comparison is to the last gen cpu. Show the same with 10th gen.

 

[Journey]

Your image doesn't make much sense in that context - by the time the 3950X was out Intel had released the 10th gen on X299 at half the price of the 9xxx chips. At an earlier point Threadrippers had a good price/performance advantage but not at this point.

That was taken from a review, 10980XE a was $1100

 

[jigger]

That’s irrelevant. Your comparison is to the last gen cpu. Show the same with 10th gen.

Zen is the single most relevant architecture in the last 10-20 years.