Though nostalgic isn't always retro
for example, I can easily say even some DX12 GPUs (like 980 Ti and 290X nostalgic) yet they're faaar from retro. Fer... ehm, Thermi is maybe retro now?
I guess it's just that being a classic intel-ish quadcore make it somewhat retro. Luckily then there came Ryzen and made them bumped up the core count. Otherwise we'd probably still be using 4c/8t chips on the consumer side.
But R7000 has only one pipeline and 64-bit memory, sounds pretty crappy to me
Not yet, just 34. Born in 1990.
Yeah, they still can run games when paired with a fast GPU and if you just don't expect too much. That 6700K @ 4.5 on my media PC is still fine as I have a 1080p60 TV and I play with Vsync on.