Sunday, June 2nd 2024
AMD Outs Ryzen 5000XT Processors for Socket AM4, an 8-year Old Socket
AMD Socket AM4 is now an 8-year-old platform, since its debut back in 2016. AMD objectively went above and beyond for this platform, launching processors powered by the original "Zen," the refreshed "Zen+," the "Zen 2," and the Intel-beating "Zen 3" microarchitecture, including 3D V-cache versions of the "Zen 3" that were competitive even with Intel's 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors in gaming. Those on older processors on AM4 are spoiled for choice with upgrades within the platform, without having to change it, with AMD releasing new processor models every year for the past 8 years. The 2024 launches include the Ryzen 5000XT series.
It's hard to call the Ryzen 5000XT a "series," since there are only two SKUs—the Ryzen 9 5900XT, and the Ryzen 7 5800XT. Neither of the two feature 3D V-cache, but push clock speeds up. The Ryzen 9 5900XT is a 16-core/32-thread part, and is not meant to be confused with the 5900X, which is a 12-core/24-thread part. The 16-core 5900XT comes with a maximum boost frequency of 4.80 GHz, which is 100 MHz less than that of the 5950X. It has the same 105 W TDP, and a significantly lower $360 price. The Ryzen 7 5800XT, on the other hand, is an 8-core/16-thread chip with 4.80 GHz maximum boost frequency, compared to the 4.70 GHz of the 5800X, and the same 105 W TDP. It's priced around $260. Both chips include an AMD Wraith Prism RGB cooler that's capable of handling 140 W TDP processors. The Ryzen 9 5900XT is claimed by AMD to offer similar gaming performance to the Intel Core i7-13700K; while the 5800XT is claimed to play games competitively to the Intel Core i5-13600KF. Both chips should be available sometime in July, 2024.
It's hard to call the Ryzen 5000XT a "series," since there are only two SKUs—the Ryzen 9 5900XT, and the Ryzen 7 5800XT. Neither of the two feature 3D V-cache, but push clock speeds up. The Ryzen 9 5900XT is a 16-core/32-thread part, and is not meant to be confused with the 5900X, which is a 12-core/24-thread part. The 16-core 5900XT comes with a maximum boost frequency of 4.80 GHz, which is 100 MHz less than that of the 5950X. It has the same 105 W TDP, and a significantly lower $360 price. The Ryzen 7 5800XT, on the other hand, is an 8-core/16-thread chip with 4.80 GHz maximum boost frequency, compared to the 4.70 GHz of the 5800X, and the same 105 W TDP. It's priced around $260. Both chips include an AMD Wraith Prism RGB cooler that's capable of handling 140 W TDP processors. The Ryzen 9 5900XT is claimed by AMD to offer similar gaming performance to the Intel Core i7-13700K; while the 5800XT is claimed to play games competitively to the Intel Core i5-13600KF. Both chips should be available sometime in July, 2024.
213 Comments on AMD Outs Ryzen 5000XT Processors for Socket AM4, an 8-year Old Socket
Let's not even mention social media. People only go there if they want to show off their perfect vacations paid on finance, or if they're angry about something, which seems to be all the damn time these days.
The lengths people will go to defend their favourite billion dollar company for free, and tbh, I'm seeing a strong correlation to the narcissists prayer here.
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
Edit: I'm trying to find marketing slides from AMD's RX 400-500 era, some of which were also utter crap.
I don't want to bring up more examples, but there's plenty from all companies. The point is: marketing is always based on flawed data and bullshit.Social media is the cesspool of humanity. Whatever happens there is always taken out of proportion. And I'm not only talking about Facebook, either.
I'm not usually one to entertain whataboutism, but because your example is flawed when trying to use this one in particular to ...I dunno.. shoot me down?
And even if your points were absolutely bulletproof, all the more reason to blast those slides, when they drop and the news post is about them. Let them know it's not ok.
Done, up to 2x confirmed, it did the thing. Also, look at the graph carefully, yes the text says "up to 2x", but you might just notice the actual plotted points on the graph are about spot on for overall relative performance.
I remember that claim also being SHREDDED due to it not always being the case, being only so under ideal conditions, and power to those people and feeling mislead by them, call it out and ask for better. And, well at least those ideal conditions still tested a GPU against a GPU in a GPU limited test scenario. Not a CPU against a CPU in a test that doesn't test the damned CPU at all, and buries the data that sheds light on it in small print on other slides.
Excellent attempt to handwave away any other account from a source you personally won't accept too, pity that personal rule of yours doesn't bear any consequence to the facts of the matter.
What's your goal here? I walk off with my tail between my legs saying "you're right, I'm annoyed about nothing, nobody is mislead by these slides" Not going to happen, and you can just drop it anytime instead of continuing to argue a point that can't and won't be conceded, believe me it's a waste of your time.
Marketing is always based on bullshit. Anno 2024, this should be common knowledge. This is all I had to say. If you want to continue being angry about it, suit yourself, but leave me out of it. I've got bigger fish to fry than a few bullshit marketing slides about a product that 99% of people aren't interested in anyway.
But as they say, there's no bad hardware, just bad prices :)