TDP, TPC, whatever, I don't care .... TDP goes out the window when you overlock but you have to start somewhere. Possibly a mis-placed acronym on my part but totally irrelevant to this discussion.
Now you're saying that I didn't know which CPU did or didn't support AVX? Well why on earth would I even mention it if that was the case? You seem to think I came here to score points. I don't need to score points. What purpose does that serve? What possible point could I score and how does that benefit me or anyone else? Not least because I couldn't care less about what you may or may not think about my choice of kit, because I know that my use case and my workloads are a good match for this CPU. I couldn't care less what you think about my equipment choices because you don't pay my mortgage and I'm doing just fine already, thank you very much. Seriously, just make a contribution to the debate on picking the right tool for the job or simply back away from the keyboard unless you actually have something truly constructive to bring rather than the AMD fanboi gamer mentality. Because that contributes nothing and I already know that it's a position where the technology no longer matters and therefore makes it pointless in engaging in any half-sensible discussion, because you're surely not saying that if I have a requirement for AVX-512 that I should have waited for Threadripper, are you? Because that's the logical extension of whatever half-baked strategy you think I should have adopted.
But since you still want to wade in with this - Threadripper is using 128bit FMA's, however they happened to be deployed really doesn't make a whole lot of difference because it's still not supporting the supporting the extensions for which we (and I've been very keen to point this out, it's OUR OWN use case, not everybodies) are now working toward adopting. The very same AVX-512 extensions that I've been referring to from the get go, and stupidly assumed that you might have grasped that. 7900X doesn't use 128bit FMA's and doesn't merely support AVX-256, and that's where Threadripper starts and finishes. Instead we have AVX-512 with TWO 512 bit FMA's. It's not a cludge, it's a proper architecture to support the new toolset correctly. That, and only THAT, is the point that I've raised and THE SOLE reason I've thrown my money behind that CPU and that architecture. Nothing more, nothing less.
Anything else?
No one uses a TPC acronym let alone mistake it for thermal power design, its not even in the pseudo tech dictionary. anyone who knows what TDP actually is does not equate it in any way shape or form as power consumption. its the same difference, one is not the other and given the 7900X uses 90 watts more than its TDP its not "140 watts" is it? its "
TPC is not 140 watts" even if there was such a thing.
its TDP is 140 watt's TDP is what you said and that's what you meant as power consumption /
You clearly do care about all the things you say you don't, far too much. You're constantly pretending to be an expert to further your Intel plugging when your knowledge gaps and misunderstandings are the simplest things any mildly interested party knows... clearly you're anything but.
Your posts in this forum read exactly like one of Intel's latest nonsense slides. they make those for a reason too.... they don't care in the same way you don't.
It would have been far easier for you just to say "yes alright TDP is not the 7900X power consumption, Ryzen does indeed have AVX and ok AVX-512 is not going to be relevant for some years yet"
I mean, remind me now, at this point, why should people avoid buying Ryzen and Threadripper?
You see the thing is that is a big statement to make so you'd really need to be absolutely correct on that, this is peoples hard earned cash you are playing with and elevating yourself above the crowed in the way that you try, given your obvious lack of knowledge and understanding its clear you have no right to a taller soapbox to steer anyone in any direction.
Stick to actual facts without the untrue rubbishing of one brand, as Intel spout nonsense all the time of late, benefit of the doubt, maybe don't take any notice of their marketing?
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