What CPU architecture do you use?

[W1zzard]

We're wondering.. what's inside your PC? A brand-new Raptor Lake or AMD Zen 4? Happy with Zen 3 or Alder Lake, or are you still using some older tech?

 

[Sithaer]

Made the switch/upgrade to Alder Lake in 2022 february and so far I'm happy with it, might drop in a Raptor Lake 13400F late next year if I actually need it at the time/depending on the games I play. 'also depends on the pricing in my country as usual'

 

[Psychoholic]

Zen4 (7950X) in my main rig.
Alderlake and Zen2 in my other two systems.

 

[Prakkie]

AMD Ryzen 7 5800H Laptop

 

[Arco]

7950X

Monster cpu.

 

[sam_86314]

Zen 3 (R7 5800X) in my main system, Tiger Lake (i5-1135G7) in my main laptop, Haswell (E3 1270 v3) in my testing system, and Sandy Bridge (E3 1260L) in my server.

 

[Yukikaze]

Tiger Lake...and it's not an option on the poll (yes, it is 11th Gen, but it isn't Rocket Lake - Same for Ice Lake and 10th Gen).

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
With multiple builds x99-x299-z490 I'll definitely will not be building another system for some time especially not another intel.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Zen 2 main rig (hopefully Zen 3 later in the form of a 5800X3D but out of stock at the present moment, or total switch to Zen 4 if i find good deals)

other rig, mixed but mostly Intel older than 8th gen for fun (and some AMD S939/940 also for fun ) second most used rig is under a i7-3770

actually, might go basic R7 5800X since it's priced cheaper than an Intel i5-13600K right now (heck it's even cheaper than 10600 and 11600 ) actually even the 5900X is getting cheaper than those

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Need multiple options! Newest to oldest:

11th gen
Zen 3
9th gen
Westmere
Harpertown

 

[lightning70]

I used 12600k. Alder Lake.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

We're wondering.. what's inside your PC? A brand-new Raptor Lake or AMD Zen 4? Happy with Zen 3 or Alder Lake, or are you still using some older tech?

It's a shame there is only one choice, I use three daily my main zen3 rig an 8th gen Intel laptop for personal gaming and a i5 10310U for work.

And that's not counting the steamdeck or spare zen3 jic system and a couple other non daily use systems.

I couldn't do with just A pc anymore

 

[kapone32]

It is interesting that Zen 3 correlates with what AMD has been saying about the success of Ryzen. It is obvious that leaps are better than tick/tock. If the MBs were not so stupidly overpriced I believe there would have been greater adoption for Zen 4. I also bet that a large percentage of the Zen3 users will go X3D AM5 when it launches. I would go with 25-30%.

 

[Boffen]

Currently using Zen 2 for 2 systems and 10th gen Intel for my laptop.
Considering upgrading my main system to Zen 3 since I really don't need anything more recent.

 

[phanbuey]

It is interesting that Zen 3 correlates with what AMD has been saying about the success of Ryzen. It is obvious that leaps are better than tick/tock. If the MBs were not so stupidly overpriced I believe there would have been greater adoption for Zen 4. I also bet that a large percentage of the Zen3 users will go X3D AM5 when it launches. I would go with 25-30%.

I think you're right on here. Zen 1 had the same issues actually except for the r7 1700 and r5 1600... Zen 3 had benefitted from people piling onto the zen platform.

The thing that saved zen 1 was the pricing and the fact that intel was on 4 cores. AMD were selling an 8 core that was cheaper and crushed everything in MT by a mile at that price.

Zen 5 with higher core counts and existing platform support has the potential to be a great product.

 

[sn2x]

Raptor Lake (13600K).

My last CPU was Zen3 (5800x) sold that just before it tanked in value.

 

[Shrek]

Core 2 Quad does all I need

 

[_JP_]

Lappy = Intel 3rd Gen Mobile
Tower (now decommissioned) = AMD Zen 1

Since the only answer that is more accurate is regarding my tower, hitting that one.

 

[dgianstefani]

Where's ARM/ARM64, @W1zzard ? ;-) What about POWERPC?

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Intel 9th Gen (Skylake) - SkyLake is not the 9th gen :-( It's the 6th gen. The 9th gen Core CPUs are Coffee Lake.

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Sadly it's not possible to choose multiple options.

It's Zen 3 + SkyLake for me.

Coffee Lake is Skylake. It has more cores and an improved process node, plus better iGPU, and some minor tweaks.

Skylake is the architecture for 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th generation Intel desktop processors.

The reason performance still went up, was the continued refinements to process and minor microarchitecture improvements, things like vulnerabilities having hardware patches. Core count and frequency increased, but not IPC.

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

Zen 4 for Windows, Zen 3(3D) for Linux, and a mix of Alder Lake & Zen 3 laying around because the new tax reporting laws in the US for '22 make it a pain to sell stuff on the internet.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Main rig is Zen 3 but but but...

I also have 9th and 8th gen Intel. As well as some 4th gen Dell conversions...

 

[QuietBob]

I picked Zen 3 as that's what powers my main PC, but I'm typing this from a Bulldozer based one. I also have a Deneb rig in regular use, and a good few retro platforms, mostly from AMD.

 

[cvaldes]

This poll should be multiple choice for those who have more than one computer. (I know I am not the only one.)

It should also include other common CPU architectures like Apple M-series and Arm.

It's debatable whether the poll should include mobile CPU architectures. I know I use my iPad more than most of my PCs.

 

[gffermari]

Zen 3 (5800X3D)

I'm actually surprised seeing so many Zen 1 and 2 in the poll.
They can all move to Zen 3 and break the chart.....

 

[mashie]

5900X and 128GB RAM.

Crazy fast for any task I can throw it.