Why not?15%... are they being conservative? That isn't going to cut it.
It might - the 5800X3D is only faster than a 5800X in CPU cache-bound workloads. Anything else and the 5800X is faster, as are its larger core count siblings.Why not?
If it's compared to the 5800X3D, seems that wouldn't be so bad at all.
Well, it's enough to put it over the top in some specific scenarios, as you say, even over Alder Lake. And those scenarios are the ones I tend to care more about in my personal PC.It might - the 5800X3D is only faster than a 5800X in CPU cache-bound workloads. Anything else and the 5800X is faster, as are its larger core count siblings.
I'm going for the fastest Raptor Lake when they come out. Can't bring myself to go back to AMD.It's going to need them for DDR5 - still, the cores themselves need to be stout. That's the one thing that Intel did with Alder Lake (after years of... not so much), and Alder Lake is still cache-bound itself, which Raptor Lake looks to address.
I like this. I probably won’t be upgrading for another couple of generations myself. Who knows what it will look like by thenWhen I upgrade next I'll go with the platform that is best at that time. I won't be pre predicting what platform that will be.
I'm doing both - several of each - but more for my own education and to have discrete compute resources on tap for... projects.I'm going for the fastest Raptor Lake when they come out. Can't bring myself to go back to AMD.