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The main benefit is that it's a no-compromise product. High single thread performance for games and there's more of those cores for productivity, it'd be the be
by scheeseman486 2y ago
The main benefit is that it's a no-compromise product. High single thread performance for games and there's more of those cores for productivity, it'd be the best workstation CPU and the best gaming CPU in one package.
- qzw 2y agoBut you'd get 95+% of the same benefit with the v-cache on just one CCD, which is what they did with the 7950X3D.
- snvzz 2y agothere was some point to doing that, due to the power restrictions imposed by having cache on top. But now cache is underneath.
- scheeseman486 2y agoThey've solved a lot of the manufacturing issues since then and since it's already a premium product, why not go all in? There might be cases where the extra cache helps performance in heavily multithreaded workloads, also niche usecases like running the chip in a headless gaming server, which would allow for splitting of the CPU into two for simultaneous game streaming without significantly compromising performance for either client. That's the point of no compromise, sometimes it's nice to have 100% benefit (not to say that making a single CCD cache version doesn't make sense as a product).