DuronBurgerMan
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that is the point, AMD had the opportunity to crash intel with no brainer.
On the mainstread there is really few reasons to choose Intel over AMD, it isn't the same on the HEDT platform.
Intel 18cores at 999USD imho is a better bet than a ultra expensive 24cores or a stupidly high priced 2000 CPU that no one will buy.
Is it? Because with 18 cores, why not buy a 16 core 3950X instead? With Zen's superior SMT yield, your multicore performance between the two is probably broadly similar, and for $250 cheaper. Single core - stock vs. stock - is similar.
AMD's product stack makes sense. They are taking the lower half of the HEDT segment and integrating it with their mainstream platform (3900X and 3950X), and dropping the prices, and extending out the core counts of their HEDT platform accordingly (eventually we will probably see 48 and 64 core offerings - but at the very least, 24 and 32 without a hobbled memory controller setup).
Prices are actually dropping and/or staying broadly similar here.
12 Core Zen CPUs:
1920X = $799 launch, 2920X = $649 launch, 3900X = $499 launch.
16 Core Zen CPUs:
1950X = $999 launch, 2950X = $899 launch, 3950X = $749 launch.
24 Core Zen CPUs:
2970WX = $1299 launch, 3960X = $1399 launch.
32 Core Zen CPUs:
2990WX = $1799 launch, 3970X = $1999 launch.
Only the 24 and 32 core products have gone up at all, and by a relatively modest amount (relatively speaking) - given the benefits of not having a hobbled, pass-through, hack-job of a memory controller on two of the dies, this is probably justifiable for those products. Everything else has dropped.
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