Its too late for me to edit my reply so I'm adding another: Just wanted to say that you had a good point about modern cores being configurable (for example, on

Its too late for me to edit my reply so I'm adding another: Just wanted to say that you had a good point about modern cores being configurable (for example, on my laptop I set the EPP 100% towards energy efficiency by default and then when I know I'm going to be running some serious long-running computations I'll run a script to make the EPP favor performance). I'll have to wait for these to be released to see how low their power usage can go considering they might have a high floor since I doubt these were designed for low power usage, but this has at least revived my consideration of these CPUs. That being said, there is one other thing to consider: motherboards. I have a first generation threadripper in my desktop and through a series of dumb moves with very heavy graphics cards, I have broken a number of the PCIe slots. I looked into getting a replacement motherboard since I figured they'd be cheap by now since they're so out of date, but first generation threadripper motherboards are like $700-$1000, while the people who bought AM4 socketed CPUs got multiple generations of CPU upgrades AND their motherboards now cost $100-$200. There are some undeniable advantages to being on their more popular consumer lines instead of the prosumer threadripper.