A great gaming CPU needs a high clock speed, no more than eight cores, a fair price, and loads of cache. Why will no one make it?
  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    9 months ago

    Either way, AMD clearly has the ability to make the 7800X3D boost further, but instead gamers have to pay the extra money for eight largely unused CPU cores to get it.

    The ignorance here misleads readers. The 7950X3D has one die that can boost up to 5.7 GHz because it doesn’t have the 3D cache, which is sensitive to heat. The die with the 3D cache doesn’t boost that high.

    Not only that, but the design of the 7950X3D can cause latency problems in gaming that aren’t an issue on the 7800X3D.

    Only if you don’t bother to select which cores the game runs on. If you feel you must buy the top-of-the-line model with two sets of cores built for different purposes, and want to get the most out of it, I think it’s fair to expect you to learn how to use it. It’s not difficult.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    9 months ago

    So put advanced features on the mid and low end chips instead of just the flagship chips. I doubt any company is going to do that. The killer features are on the flagship because no one really needs all the raw power of those chips, those features make the upsale.