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Or save $1990 and just buy the 3970X

• masklinn 7y ago
  The 3970X has half the threads because it has half the cores, not because SMT is disabled. You may want to avoid the issue by giving up 10% if your performances, less so by giving up 50%.
  • gameswithgo 7y ago
    3970X also has much higher clock rates though! Might be a net win for some workloads.
    • tareqak 7y ago
      Yes, but if you care about 64 threads without the possible side-channel issues that SMT currently/theoretically has, then you are back to the 3990X. For what it is worth, I have an AMD Ryzen 2700X Eight-Core Processor that I got in 2018, and I keep SMT off. I do some light gaming with it, and I am happy. I did not notice a big drop in performance, but I did not truly measure the difference.