Re: Intel's High-End CPU Problem

Werner P. <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:

What sometimes happened in the early Ryzen revisions was that due to the
chiplet architecture some games were performing slightly worse due to
threads shifting between the chiplets, nothing serious though, but even
that has been fixed with some scheduler patches to my knowledge on the
other hand Intel got a ton of performance loss in the same area thanks
to security fixes they were forced to do. (not that AMD is not hit
occasionally also by security issues they have to fix)

The two chiplet problem with games is fundamental to the design and
hasn't been fixed.  The two chiplet AMD Ryzen 9 59xx and 79xx CPUs all
perform significantly worse in games compared to the much cheaper Ryzen
7 single chiplet 5800X3D and 7800X3D CPUs of the same generation.

Right now that means the 7800X3D is the fastest all around gaming CPU
money can buy.  Paying more for a 7950X or 7950X3D will actually get
you worse performance in many games.

As for general compatibility there's no reason to prefer an Intel CPU
over an AMD one.  When I put together a new computer a year ago I went
with Intel because DDR4 memory made the entire package a better deal, but
with prices the way they are now I'd problaby go for AMD.  It's important
to remember that Intel is copying AMD as much as the other way around.
Intel is just starting to get into multi-chiplet CPUs, and while its
now over two decades old, the entire 64-bit x86 architecture that modern
x86 CPUs all use was designed by AMD, not Intel.

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