AMD 9000

[tp4tissue]

Now, yea.... it's pretty fast.  10-25% faster on average  vs 7

Might not be worth upgrading for gamr' though, unless they're still on 5 series.


Would wait for the X3D.    These new motherboards though, Hrrrm.. NE1 thinking about getting the new boards?

Also, why do they even benchmark photoshop, I've never heard any photoshopper complain about slow photoshop performance that wasn't caused by excessive background apps that would slow ANY Cpu.

[Leslieann]

Depends on what you do with Photoshop (PS).
Filters can be a huge drain on PS as can processing lots of large photos a the same time but you pretty much need to be a VERY serious hobbyist or a professional to really bog it down in that sort of way and even then it would depend on how you use it.

I don't doubt it's faster, but by how much real world? Modern mid tier systems are pretty damn fast to the point that you need a LOT more than you used to to actually see a difference. For example if your system boots in 10 seconds a 10% drop is only a one second difference, even 25% that still only equates to a two and a half second change in boot, would you really notice? Launching a browser is even faster, meaning the difference is even less. It could be beneficial if you're bottlenecking your GPU, but you would need one heck of a GPU and if you do (they're pretty $$$$ at the level that would require), why are you running such a low end CPU to begin with?

I've been saying this for a while, benchmarks (A.K.A. marketing) have really skewed our perception of this sort of thing. You need to figure out what's the actual real world perceivable change, will you even notice?

[tp4tissue]

Wonder if the X3D will have power limits again this time around due to the vcache.

[tp4tissue]

It's a bit confusing, why even make most of these non x3d chips.

It's not like AI development or at home crowd were buying up 7950x.

Why not just produce the x3d variant for home use and be done with it. 

Can't help feel they're only doing this to recycle lower binned chiplets?