AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Geekbenched, Crushes i9-12900K, in the League of the i9-13900K

[Arco]

Disagree. At least for me. When AMD releases the X3D next year, then sure, it could outperform Intel if intel looks to be the better buy compared to zen4 in the coming weeks. Zen4 is and should be, a direct competitor to Raptor Lake. But if the X3D isnt releasing in the time frame as 7K series or Raptor Lake and i was looking to buy now, the X3D isnt even in my field of view. I wouldnt be waiting 2 years. Id get whoever is the better buy at the time of my purchase.

For me, waiting half a year isn't an option. It's 4-5 months at the max.

 

[Valantar]

For me, waiting half a year isn't an option. It's 4-5 months at the max.

I mean, we all have our limits, but that is a very small distinction.

 

[Arco]

I mean, we all have our limits, but that is a very small distinction.

True, but when I start piling more and more months of waiting it turns into a difference.

 

[AdmiralThrawn]

Except in gaming? Gaming doesn't see meaningful gains past 6c12t, so if the 7600X is faster at that, that makes it an attractive proposition even if it's clearly weaker in nT productivity.

This is true currently but in the long term, I know of several companies that are developing games to run on up to 8-10 cores if availible within the next 2 years. So having the gaming performance now may win but in 2 years with new titles there is a lot better argument for multicore performance.

 

[Valantar]

This is true currently but in the long term, I know of several companies that are developing games to run on up to 8-10 cores if availible within the next 2 years. So having the gaming performance now may win but in 2 years with new titles there is a lot better argument for multicore performance.

Plenty of games already do. The question is whether they run 8-10 heavy threads. Which they won't in any reasonable time frame, as games for the most part just aren't that parallelizable. A lot of game code needs to be executed sequentially, and there are limits to how practical any attempt at splitting that into multiple threads can be.