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No One Is Buying AMD Zen 5 CPUs, So What's Going On? (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I just wrote a reply to this post as well, where I wrote that I'm going to upgrade my CPU soon but I'm probably going to get a Zen 4 X3D because they're faster than a Zen 5 CPU but based on what you wrote, should I change my decision? They're a good bit cheaper and without that Windows bug (I use Linux anyway) and if I overclock it to the TDP of the Zen 4 X3Ds, might they be faster after all? I saw something about that Windows bug and that they run at a lower TDP out of the box but I didn't find anything about how they run now and if you can overclock them since there's more headroom.

Edit: Also to just give a little context, I'm currently running a Ryzen 5 3600 with 16 gigs of DDR4 RAM but since I need to get a new mainboard and RAM anyway, I'm upgrading to 32 gigs of DDR5 RAM

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you're gaming tbh I'd rather go with Zen4X3D or if you really want to, wait for Zen5X3D. Standard Zen5 isn't really worth it considering the dropping of Zen4 prices IMO

Even with the performance boost of turning up the TDP, you're looking at pretty similar performance to the X3D chips, and in some games that really love cache, still a decent amount worse

I also just upgraded from a 3600, but I did it to a 5700X3D, because it barely cost anything and only required dropping in a new CPU

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

The thing is, the Zen 5 CPUs are actually cheaper in Germany than the Zen 4 X3D CPUs but if the performance of Zen 4 X3D is still better, I'm getting that, thanks

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Standard Zen5 isn't really worth it considering the dropping of Zen4 prices IMO

Unless you're like me and upgrading from something quite old like an i5-6600k. I switched to a R5 7600 for now that's at least on the AM5 and was less than 200 so I have a lot of upgrade paths later on when I have more funding (blew my entire budget on a 4080 LOLOL)

Still miles better than the i5/1060 setup I had lmao