Zen 5 Reviews TL;DR & Opinion Poll

[529th]

I voted for a 9600X I was considering upgrading my gaming rig but it's still doing what I need it to for the games I play. The 9600X will be for a media machine to replace an aging X58 system. Not sure if the crashing is due to the drive or capacitors just eroding, or ... whatever is crashing it. If I don't go through with a 9600X, all I need is an AM4 X570 MB for the spare parts I have. Finding the MB I want is the problem.

 

[Ruru]

9700X and not on AM5. I'd just increase its power limit to ~100W and should be golden.

 

[RaceT3ch]

Would rather skip Zen 5. Zen 4 is barely behind their new counterparts, and they don't OC like the rumours of the 9600x 5.7GHZ and 9950x 6GHZ early samples. I'd only use a Zen 5 CPU if I was given it as a birthday day present, won a giveaway or something that doesn't involve me buying it. Let's just hope Zen 6 is at least 10% better in the next 2 years.

 

[PierreJG]

People fought Intel cause of their problems. AMD and Nvidia are not any better tbh. But people make mistakes in buying the first series cpus as I see them at beta parts. An example would be, what happened with the first Ryzen CPU. It had a horrible launch. Then They released Ryzen 2xxx which had a better launch. I may just be paranoid about thinking the first batch is always faulty but hey that is just me

 

[Zazigalka]

7800x3d

Its not just buying at launch. AMD's pricing strategy directly detracts from gathering their launch hype. Its self destruction for the 'interesting' part of a launch. I mean, if shit's priced out of my comfort zone I'm not going to drool over getting it, right? Or 'possibly' getting it... That applied to the 4090 for example. OK great, but if this is the only product in the Ada line up that's a sensible buy, I'm not buying... That applies even today. Similarly, if you know that 4090 is going to get discounted somewhere in the future... that's the moment it might get interesting.

Price simply makes the product because there are plenty of 'good enough' chips around in the market already.

7800x3d is already quite affordable for a cpu that tops gaming charts, it surely will be close to 9800x3d when that od launched, and will probably drop more.

 

[#22]

For now Zen 5 brings one really good thing: bringing down to earth people valuing theoretical "upgrade path" to the point it was no discussion for them between "dead platform" Intel and "futureproof" AM5. Especially I talk times when AM5 was pricier, giving you less performance and long before we heard about Intel's problems. Next generation may happen similar - not worth upgrading. Some of them are probably these naive guys who wouldn't believe such things to happen, because for them AMD are here these good guys... Like being a good guy has anything to technological advancement...

There're two things with upgrade path making it thing rather garbage:
- it needs to deliver chips, them being worth buying and it all when you need to upgrade. Less than more likely for them to meet.
- the only thing "upgrade path" guarantees is destroying resell values of your CPU and mobo by flooding market with compatible parts and newer being more attractive than yours. It's likely that it will lower value of your stuff by more than you would need to spend on new motherboard for next CPU, also giving you choice between companies.

 

[wNotyarD]

By the sound of things, I may have no reason to go AM5 at all. Let (a hypothetical) AM6 come with DDR6 and then I'll rethink if I even need a rebuild to replace my X470/5700X3D pairing.
Zen 5000X3D is the new Sandy Bridge, come what may the thing just trucks along.