Ryzen 7 3700X!

I'm hoping for a great chip too, but when the performance says, "Raw single-thread performance estimation" it's hard to take it seriously.

If the 4.2Ghz base/5Ghz turbo plays out, it sounds like it would be a great chip regardless (dependent upon price of course).
 
Those sites are garbage, they got the GPU equivalent of them as well. Not sure who runs them but they always show up on the first page of a google search.
 
That site has so much wrong with it. All AMD processors support AES ni as well as many things it said it wont support etc...
 
I'm hoping for a great chip too, but when the performance says, "Raw single-thread performance estimation" it's hard to take it seriously.

If the 4.2Ghz base/5Ghz turbo plays out, it sounds like it would be a great chip regardless (dependent upon price of course).

If those are the specifications, then I'd say that it's already a great chip. Twelve cores at 4.2GHz+? Cool.

The balance depends on what the all-core boost is with overclocking. A 9900K is 5.0GHz, all-core; and then there's IPC, which will likely be close enough, but a difference of 500MHz would still be enough to differentiate the two on less parallizable loads.

That site has so much wrong with it. All AMD processors support AES ni as well as many things it said it wont support etc...

A lot of that may be different names/branding for certain features. Usually wind up with a generic name for the capability and a different name used by one or both manufacturers.
 
I'll be in the market for one since it'll be a drop in replacement for my 1600x which has been a great performer for my needs.
 
I've been out of the loop on the new Ryzens... will 3700x use the AM4 socket? I'm running an OC'ed 2600 now in an Asus x370 Pro and hate the thought of having to change my mobo.
 
I've been out of the loop on the new Ryzens... will 3700x use the AM4 socket? I'm running an OC'ed 2600 now in an Asus x370 Pro and hate the thought of having to change my mobo.

Yes. You'll need a BIOS update but it should be a drop in fit.
 
I've been out of the loop on the new Ryzens... will 3700x use the AM4 socket? I'm running an OC'ed 2600 now in an Asus x370 Pro and hate the thought of having to change my mobo.
No you should not have to change a thing (beside bios). Supposedly the new feature which allows latency to stay the same for cross core communication might be tied towards the new motherboards but at this point in time we don't the difference in offset for it to be something worthwhile (except when you do run it for software that does use this a lot ).
Since we don't know how much of this will effect things beside 1080p gaming.
 
I got my eye on the 3700x myself. Just patiently waiting for June/July when we get actual benchmarks. It just may be the replacement for my 4790k rig that gets upgraded around November.
 
I'm all about that 5 ghz boost version. 3780x I think it's called. Dont feel like looking it up right now.

But I feel like it will render my thread ripper 2950x obsolete on a core performance level.
 
I'm all about that 5 ghz boost version. 3780x I think it's called. Dont feel like looking it up right now.

But I feel like it will render my thread ripper 2950x obsolete on a core performance level.
Not so much if you use all the pci-e lanes :)
 
Not so much if you use all the pci-e lanes :)

This is true. I might raid another nvme but I am coming no where close to even half the lanes right now. I think I have the following:

16 for 2080ti
4 for 1tb nvme
8 for my 10gig Intel Nic (Fiber Optic - XFSR model)

Thats only 30 lanes and I still have another 34 to go ha ha

So many damn lanes.
 
Unless you need >2 NVMe, you could get an AM4 board with an Aquantia NIC built in- would likely require a 10Gbase-T transceiver for the opposite end of the uplink, but relative to the price delta to a Threadripper build, that's nothing.
 
I'm all about that 5 ghz boost version. 3780x I think it's called. Dont feel like looking it up right now.

But I feel like it will render my thread ripper 2950x obsolete on a core performance level.

I think it's: Ryzen 9 3850X. 3900X and 3950X might be following up soon afterward.
 
I think it's: Ryzen 9 3850X. 3900X and 3950X might be following up soon afterward.

I'm not too sure about soon , it might take AMD a good while before those 16 core AM4 are ready(binning).
 
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Usually AMD releases their halo chip first.
Well it is the same binning strategy they had before :
Server>Threadripper>Ryzen

So for the 2 needed 8 core chiplets that makes a Ryzen 9 3xxx desktop part the binning will require the best to land on 2 other platforms if yields are close to what they were before this might take a while.
 
Usually AMD releases their halo chip first.
Their Halo chip on am4 may not have 16 cores (which is not to say they won't have a 16c chip, but that it may not be the best and most expensive chip they have)
 
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