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I've been seeing these CPUs marketed as next gen gaming CPUs but maybe I'm wrong

• nightski 4y ago
  Yes the 5900/7900 but those have 12 cores. The higher end 5950/7950, which has a higher core count, actually perform slightly worse in games and are targeted towards a prosumer. Don't get me wrong, they still work amazingly well for games. It's just that they sacrificed some performance in those chips for the higher core count so it only makes sense they'd want to push that further. But my guess is they don't want to compete with their threadripper line. Unfortunately those come much later in the product cycle so we'll probably be waiting some time for a Zen 4 threadripper.
  • willis936 4y ago
    7950X has more L3$ per CCX and higher single threaded clock, so I'm not sure why you think the 7900X would perform better in games.