AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors dates and prices revealed

I should edit my post lol. From the first reports I was seeing, that seemed the case, but now after reading some other sites like the phoronix one, maybe you're right and they're pretty strong.

My CPU hit 10 years old back in July and I'm thinking of switching to AMD for the next one so this sounds interesting. Though I'm in no hurry, so maybe I'll wait for an X3D version to see how it compares.

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Jarmerand these cpus are very underwhelming, so very easy to pass on.

How are they underwhelming? From what I've read, it's a major improvement over Zen 4.

Minimal performance gain over the previous series.

Power use is better, so I'd call that a big plus. Unfortunately idle power use is still too high on AMD CPUs.

Still can't seem to compete with the X3Ds though, so it'll be interesting to see what that could do for this series.

Quoting: EhvisMinimal performance gain over the previous series.

Seems to be comparable to improvements from Zen 3 to Zen 4. Not sure that's called minimal. I'm more interested in how well eco mode will perform.

Quoting: EhvisStill can't seem to compete with the X3Ds though, so it'll be interesting to see what that could do for this series.

It would be interesting if high end models will have full core coverage with extra cache in X3D and will avoid the asymmetrical set up.


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Quoting: croxisI'm still running a 1700 and never bothered upgrading because I never really ran into significant gaming bottlenecks from the CPU. I'm probably going to wait for the fancy 3D cache version. I've read those chips are significant upgrades for gaming.

Yes they are significant indeed, went myself from a 1600x to a 5800x3d one year ago and oboy was that an upgrade.

I'm still on a 2700X and don't feel it holds me back from anything. When the 3700X came out, I really wanted the wattage drop, but not enough to pay for it. I may upgrade my core components in 2025 (working on GPU this year), but the chipset and storage interfaces would be the primary driver there. The CPU upgrade would simply be neat.

Now, this X3D feature everyone is talking about is unknown to me, so time to do some reading and get starry-eyed maybe.

EDIT: After looking at Phoronix and Microcenter, it seems to me the X3D processors were not wonderful for gaming initially, but seem good now...? An older 5800X3D article didn't look attractive, but when it's seen in a later 7900X3D article, it looks fine. But I don't know I'm convinced X3D are worth the $$ yet due to lack of cooler and higher power in contrast to the 65W models. According to PassMark, the 5700X compared to the 7900X3D is half the performance and half the TDP while being 39% of the cost.


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