Gamer checking in. Single core performance is very important as games are not quite yet capable of taking advantage of say 12 cores compared to 6 higher performing cores.
It’s why the 5600x3d performs so closely to the 5800x3d while gaming despite it being a 6 core vs 8 core comparison. We encountered something similar a decade ago with i5 vs i7 for gaming games we’re not capable of taking full advantage of hyperthreading. But as time went on the gap between the two widened.
Hopefully this will be a wide spread release. I recently paid $300 for the 5600x3d combo and a heatsink. Haven’t even had time to build it. Saw no point paying another $100 more to go AM5 when this offers enough performance I will probably skip AM5 with how long I try to stretch builds.
Hopefully this is widespread so people have a nice budget upgrade on AM4 and nice budget AM4 builds with an x3d cpu. DDR4 is cheaper, and with a budget build price matters.
Kind of thinking the same thing but no idea on actual performance. I picked up the 5600x3d a few days ago just haven’t had time to build it, and that gets within a few percent of the 5800x3d performance in most titles. I’m thinking the lower clock speeds will play a big role in performance compared to cores.
They made a whole new market segment, competing with others on the high end would be a yearly battle. Keeping things simple and making steam OS viable and trustworthy is a more long term approach while they keep the same machining processes longer term on the same hardware making the overall cost per unit lower for them as their not constantly changing it and investing R&D into new hardware.
They are competing on software as that is what they sale, games. Hardware they showed other companies it’s viable and succeeded there. If steam OS becomes open to everyone and works good, that would make a good platform for all these devices. And the steam store would be the obvious choice to buy your games.
If you don’t do any gaming and don’t plan on buying a dedicated GPU. The 5600g is completely fine as the integrated GPU will take care of all the small day to day desktop tasks.
If you do any gaming get the normal 5600, the extra L3 cache makes a difference in gaming and you won’t be using the iGPU as I imagine you will also pair it with a dedicated GPU.