>Ryzen comes out>think this is fucking epic and we're gonna have a race to see how much we CPU they can sell per dollar now that its competitive>its literally just intel and AMD leapfrogging each other to see who can make the most expensive fucking CPU possibleWhat the fuck happened? I was having a better time with my shitty FX CPU in that era becsuse while they couldn't compete, it was the best era of budget rigs.
this is the stupidest fucking thread on /g/ rn
>>107090358>ryzen comes out>after almost a decade of intel selling 4cores8threads >oh boy so many cores from now on>now almost a decade of AMD selling 6cores12threads ultimate scam.
>>107090428Seriously thats what this dumbass >>107090416 doesnt get, it was super hilarious watching intel 14nm go to 6 cores on the desktop socket because it could've been the while time, i figured this was gonna go on and on, but now its just kinda stopped, 6C12T is still what a lot of people are on
Next gen you'll see the base core counts jump from 8 to 12
>>107090428You can buy Epyc cpus with 192 cores
>>107090428works on my machinefuck, now I need to close task manager the "correct" way goddamn it
How good is gaming on a Threadripper?
>>107091281I mostly do sim games rather than triple A. Some are multi-core optimized, in which case game goes brrrrr. But you definitely need to balance the trade-offs between single-core and multi-core performance. I felt the 7970X was the sweet spot for my build, because as you go up the tiers they start being multi-core heavy at the expense of single-core.Also, my RAM bandwidth is quite high with the quad channel.
>>107091323Nice thanks
>>107090428> comparing i7 to r5Anyway, your overall point is accurate. Core-wise, not much has changed for Ryzen since 2017 (Ryken 1k), and even less since 2020 (Ryzen 3k, bringing R9 to a mainstream socket).If you only look at R5/R7, almost nothing has changed for cores - the 6 / 8 core chips are still where they were in Ryzen 1k. 4c/8t used to be the lower half of R5, but got moved down to R3 (whenever there even is an R3 anymore). APUs typically had fewer cores than regular Ryzens of the same segment, but now have the same number.Zen 6 seems to finally bring moar coars, but will take another year to come out (give or take a few months).
>>107091375It's a real god damn shame, while its cool you can pay a shit ton and get a high core count CPU, 8C16T should be the mid to low end PCs now. It's basically the old LGA 2011 situation in the 2010s, sure you can get 6-8 core parts, but you're paying a lot for it, and don't expect anything to drop in price with progress becsuse we're millking it.
>>107091407You can buy 8 cores in the"i3" price range
isn't the latest generation of cpus much faster than my 11600k even at the $200 price point?that seems like progress to me.
