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I'll probably still get it since I've been waiting for it to release, but a bit disappointed they couldn't get 5GHz.. I'm curious what overclocking could be don

• dralley 7y ago
  Despite being behind on frequency, it seems they've totally caught up (and maybe surpassed, not enough info to know yet) Intel in IPC, and even the 3700X will have more than double the cache of the 9900K So we'll have to see what the benchmarks look like but they might not be as far behind as the frequency gap would suggest.
  • PaulBGD_ 7y ago
    That's true, if more software starts taking advantage of multiple threads it'd probably be better than most of Intel's offerings.
    • mort96 7y ago
      What software which requires a lot of processing power currently doesn't take advantage of multiple threads? Games are increasingly parallel, browsers do most non-JS things in parallel (and obviously run each tab in parallel), compiling code and video rendering eats CPU cores like crazy.
      • gameswithgo 7y ago
        yeah a lot of people will assert that games don't benefit from more threads, but, if you fire up fortnite or battlegrounds and look at your cpu grapsh, you will see at least 8 of them working pretty hard
• snvzz 7y ago
  Since they're beating Intel, lower clock only means faster/clock, which is better. And there's of course potential for higher clocks as yields improve with 7nm process maturity. In fact, they might be even possible today, but AMD chose to release a relatively affordable lineup, which is the opposite of Intel's expensive chips with "golden die" binning. This shows AMD is relaxed, in contrast to Intel's desperation.