"Other than being noisy" doing a lot of work there :p
Decent $30-50 coolers perform much better than both the Wraith Max and Prism, never mind the Spire. The Stealth is infinitely better than Intel's stock coolers because it can actually keep the bundled CPUs within spec, but it was very loud...
Unlike Cinebench, 720p@360hz is an actual real world scenario if somewhat niche :)
Would be nice to see AMD closing the gap in high fps gaming because that's pretty much the last bastion where Intel is strictly superior.
I'm not to worried about getting data into the caches, games loop over reasonably small data sets every frame with relatively small changes. You can see the impact cache has on memory bound games in the difference between Zen1 and Zen 2 in something like CSGO.
Don't have to take the long way to memory if you hit the L3. It's harder to predict how much the unified L3 contributes compared to a straight up increase in cache size but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the single biggest upgrade in gaming benchmarks, even with the rumoured IF speed increase.
Desktop chips *are* server chips for Ryzen and the time frames don't match for a product released late this year. The only way this rumour would make sense for me would be if it's actually Zen3 APUs and the 4000 series bit is a misunderstanding.
Edit: that or Zen+ style update maybe.
CCX is still 4 cores but the L3 is now shared by the two CCX on the die.
New AAA titles are still going to be built around this console gen for a good while. I would be surprised if AMD did away with 6c/12t budget options, especially with how popular the 3600 ended up being.
Apple's cpus are a great example of this, A12 has double both L1 caches of Skylake X and 6x the L2 and targeting higher clockspeeds would require much worse latencies.
It would be impressive but also absolutely necessary to match Intel's pace. Ice Lake might be stuck on a dud node but clock for clock it's still the fastest x86 cpu.
On the bleeding edge 22nm process node ;)
I thought the endurance on high performance MRAM was still pretty poor but it's been a while since I've paid attention.
1. What are you going to be using your pc for and what's the tradeoff? If it's mostly for gaming and a 3600 will let you put more budget towards a GPU then that's probably the way to go, else the 3700x is looking real good.
2. How much do you value silence? Aftermarket cpu coolers won't reduce...
Yeah, I think we'll see a similar pricing structure to the 2XXX series for 8 cores and under, with the dual chiplet ryzen pricing overlapping low-end threadripper slightly. Mockingbird's pricing guesses feel pretty on point to me.
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