Question Does it make sense to buy a new AMD 9900 CPU and replace the Intel 12900 ???

[roynany]

Does it make sense to buy a new AMD 9900 CPU and replace the Intel 12900 ???

My use: video, movies, YouTube, Internet, Netflix
or
Maybe it's just worth investing in a newer NVIDIA 5700 graphics card?


Thanks for your explanation why ? How ?

 

[eek2121]

If that is your use case I would not upgrade anything at all.

 

[roynany]

NVIDIA video card has new UPSCALE capabilities
improve a picture?

Will a new 5000 series card have AI?

 

[CakeMonster]

Don't bother sidegrading your CPU. 12900 is decent until at least the generations that launch in 2025 or 2026, and that's for heavy users.

We don't know anything about the hardware features, like AI upscaling for games on the NV 50 series yet. Speculation is that there's not much new compared to the 40 series, just better bandwidth, but that's speculation.

 

[Tech Junky]

not much new

That's typically the case with most things unless you're keen on something specific like PCIE 5 which debuted on 12th ADL / AM5 which doubles the slot speed.

Even my current 7900X 12/24 would stand up to the new 9900X. There are subtle differences between the two and the only major change is AMD forcing USB4 ports on the MOBO side for the 800 series MOBO.

My feelings about GPU's though is about the same as they tweak things and slap a new model number on them. Though I did see something about a ridiculous DC/AI model that has 48GB of VRAM on it.

sidegrading

Sometimes this isn't a bad thing. I jumped ship from a 12700K to the 7900X which was mostly a lateral move but, I got rid of the hybrid cores and gained slot bifurcation in the process and got rid of the storage issue I was seeing and got to upcycle a card that didn't work on the Intel system for some reason for a couple of years.

So, it depends on the bigger picture and possibilities.

My use: video, movies, YouTube, Internet, Netflix

For this though... I don't see throwing money at any of those being fruitful. Maybe "video" depending on the use like rendering / transcoding. If it's the latter then a cheap A380 is more productive for $100. I added one for that purpose and the mighty little card hits over 1000 FPS when converting things to MP4. QSV is great for this but, since it's an Intel thing you need an Intel card to enable it or Intel CPU.