Sudden death of AMD Ryzen Zen 5 CPUs

[GlitchyDot]

I hope I don't offend anyone, but the main advantage of the 3D-VCache is for me to compensate the poor performance of crappy "Japanese" made game engines.
Japanese games aren't really optimized for multi-core performance so, single-core performance is more important.
And if comparing the R9 9900X and R9 9900X3D in japanese games, then I can say that due to the 3D-VCache the R9 9900X3D delivers almost 20% more single-core performance than the R9 9900X in those games...
The more it is important while emulating games where you have every core for performing only one task.

Its not only Japanese games ... its majority of games.
Only handful of games can utilize multicores. So 3D-VCache is acceptable for those hardcore gamers, and single core max speed still valid to this day not only in games but also with LLM`s - as with higher single core threaded cpu you can get higher token/second running interference.
Also, latest R9 9950X3D is a beast in productivity too ( as seen in benchmarks ) shame pricing is a bit Oooof.

 

[SDK Chan]

You get the best from both worlds with X3D CPUs.
Yes, the majority of games use single-core, too, but japanese games (many of them) tend to be bad optimized.
Square Enix has a very good reputation of releasing very bad optimized games on PC.
Monster Hunter is bad optimized, but Octopath Traveler II is very good optimized.
But generally I don't notice so much of a performance gain in native PC games.

All X3D CPUs are not cheap, and the hype is partly the cause of it, I guess ?
The price is one thing, but if the use case of that CPU is justified, then the investment is also worth it, I think.

 

[Space Banana]

I don't think that the base clock is the max OCed clock of it, since it can clock up to 5.5GHz.

For both Intel and AMD it still seems that they respect the traditional naming convention, where the "base clock" is the maximum clock speed without turbo, and with turbo they call it "turbo clock".
I rarely use turbo clocks because they are simply not sustainable, especially on my Intel dumpster fire. My laptop can sustain 70 degrees under full load at max base clock, but if I start slightly increasing the clock speed to above that it quickly reaches 80 and eventually even 90 degrees. Full turbo clocks under full load throttle the system because it surpasses 100 degrees, never again.

 

[cracauer@]

Also keep in mind that with the larger 3rd level cache on the x3d chips RAM speed becomes even less critial.

 

[Space Banana]

I don't think photo editing is very memory bandwidth intensive. It loads the CPU pretty hard.

It's pretty flexible
1920x1080 8bit/channel? Very low memory usage even for large and complex projects
4K 32bit/channel? Memory usage will be notably higher, but even then it's nothing that 16GB of system RAM can't do

 

[T-Aoki]

For both Intel and AMD it still seems that they respect the traditional naming convention, where the "base clock" is the maximum clock speed without turbo, and with turbo they call it "turbo clock".

I can't stop recalling "Turbo" as "normal speed" and with "Turbo" off as "mostly same speed as slooooow PC/AT".

 

[Space Banana]

It's pretty flexible
1920x1080 8bit/channel? Very low memory usage even for large and complex projects
4K 32bit/channel? Memory usage will be notably higher, but even then it's nothing that 16GB of system RAM can't do

I misread, didn't notice the "bandwidth" part