It's close to the end of the year, you know what that means! More expensive shit that holds little to no tangible benefit compared to the expensive shit that came out last year!!! The current focus is on CPUs and boy oh boy this is one of the product launches ever.
To start off with, AMD's new zen 4 processors operate at 95°c regardless of how beefy your cooling solution is. This is by design, apparently.
AMD went on to say that 95C is not running hot, rather Zen 4 will intentionally go to this temperature as much as possible under load because the power management system knows that this is the ideal way to squeeze the most performance out of the chip without damaging it.
Good stuff.
Additionally, the big expensive ryzen 9 7950x only barely outpaces the significantly older ryzen 7 5800x3D which is really really funny.
Intel has also recently decided to make it known that they exist too, announcing their new line of "raptor lake" processors. The graphs speak for themselves.
In the midst all of this, many are still waiting for somebody to announce a product that isn't completely pointless.
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that intel marketing graph is hilarious
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yep, them hiding the x3d with that single line is hilarious, here is the fixed graph
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They really do have the worst measurements
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"average fps ratio" when the axes get obscure you know they're coping
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Tbh they're gonna probably be better than amds entire lineup for gaming outside of the 7800x3d. The 12700k was already beating the 5700/5800x and is competitive with the 7000 series.
If intel drops their chips at the same price points as last time AMD is in trouble in the consumer budget/mid range brackets. Amd going full ddr5 was a mistake and waiting so long to release b650 boards was a mistake. I've only ever had AMD builds and might just go intel this time unless the 7800x3d is seriously impressive.
People know when they're being greeded by a corporation. Nvidia is learning that right now and AMD is burning the good will they've built over the years speed run style.
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Agreed, it's as even between the two as it can possibly get between releases. Even disregarding their ddr4 support Intel will still probably be better value like they've been since gen 10
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Or you know, these shouldn't be looked as gaming components. The Ryzen 7000 Series is a real compute powerhorse. If you want to game get the 5800x3d/or chaper 5000 series or some power hungry intel combo
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