Honestly (apart from the general hardware parts pricing crisis) the problem is that you can get the 7800X3D for almost the same price or just slightly more. Especially if you have a Micro Center nearby you.
It feels like the people doing the benchmarks are stuck in time. POV-Ray benchmarks but not AI? Most people today, including enthusiasts, don't even know what POV-Ray is.
It's a gaming chip, literally a lower-cost downgrade of an AI chip meant for gamers instead of AI.
Why would it benchmarked for AI in these circumstances?
Beside, the second page look like those unnecessary AI benchmark to me. I wouldn't recognise such for certain or be aible to estimate their quality, but it's what their summary say.
But as a gamer who hasn't been able to make a significant upgrade to my rig in 6 years due to memory price and redirected processor engineering funding (all of it due to AI), it really bother me.
I assume they meant that gaming is the main market segment it serves, which from my understanding is correct. The X3D chips have great performance in games, which are generally constrained by memory latency. It's, of course, still a general purpose CPU that can do many things.
It is indeed a desktop CPU chip, but the 3dV cache is real good for gaming, thus it's also marked in that region.
From the official AMD website:
> Whatever the setting or resolution, lead your team to victory with elite gaming performance from a powerful 8‑core AMD gaming processor featuring AMD 3D V‑Cache™ technology.
Already down to $280 https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/1uz0grn/cpu_...
Honestly (apart from the general hardware parts pricing crisis) the problem is that you can get the 7800X3D for almost the same price or just slightly more. Especially if you have a Micro Center nearby you.
But it's not bad if you can find a good combo deal with a mobo and RAM, https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=4812%204019%204020%204021&Srch...
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A shame the x3d cache parts lack integrated GPUs. The extra cache could be handy for inference with smaller models.
Newer models do have both the x3d cache and integrated GPU. For example AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D
I wonder what perf. this cpu can get in bit/ternary inference, and whether the 512AVX units(or whats it's called on AMD), get throttled.
It feels like the people doing the benchmarks are stuck in time. POV-Ray benchmarks but not AI? Most people today, including enthusiasts, don't even know what POV-Ray is.
It's a gaming chip, literally a lower-cost downgrade of an AI chip meant for gamers instead of AI.
Why would it benchmarked for AI in these circumstances?
Beside, the second page look like those unnecessary AI benchmark to me. I wouldn't recognise such for certain or be aible to estimate their quality, but it's what their summary say.
Actually it would be very interesting to know how it performs for AI and whether it has a better value.
I understand where you are coming from.
But as a gamer who hasn't been able to make a significant upgrade to my rig in 6 years due to memory price and redirected processor engineering funding (all of it due to AI), it really bother me.
It's not a gaming chip, it's a desktop CPU chip.
Imagine thinking that all people use PCs for is games...
I assume they meant that gaming is the main market segment it serves, which from my understanding is correct. The X3D chips have great performance in games, which are generally constrained by memory latency. It's, of course, still a general purpose CPU that can do many things.
It is indeed a desktop CPU chip, but the 3dV cache is real good for gaming, thus it's also marked in that region.
From the official AMD website:
> Whatever the setting or resolution, lead your team to victory with elite gaming performance from a powerful 8‑core AMD gaming processor featuring AMD 3D V‑Cache™ technology.
True, I suppose it is also useful for video editing and other uses.
The article describe it as a gaming chip, though. Might be because of the site's target audience? I don't know them.
> Might be because of the site's target audience?
Yes, but also because of official AMD marketing:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/70...
> with elite gaming performance from a powerful 8‑core AMD gaming processor
I would also call it a gaming CPU, because it is what it excels at. ¯\(ツ)/¯