My face when I MFW a reddit comment.

Someone in 2017: “I’ll get a b350 motherboard and a cheap Polaris GPU, by the time they’re obsolete I’ll have enough saved to upgrade.”

That same person in 2026: “Okay, time to try to build a $20,000 gaming PC…”

The AMD Athlon was the first CPU to hit 1GHz back in 1999, it had one core, one thread, and a one gigahertz clock rate.

Today we’re hitting 6.2GHz on 96 core CPUs.

It’s wild living in the future.

This stuff is wild, I’m waiting for the post explaining how 7950 can help people quit smoking.

Welcome to the club!!

You joke, but…

Kind of a bittersweet day.

Polaris was a workhorse, it put in more miles than I think any of us could have expected, and while Vega didn’t sell like gangbusters, those of us who had one had a lot of fun playing around with it.

o7

If you do a google search for “[Ryzen CPU] Eco mode benchmarks” you should get a fair few results, though they’ll probably be more from hobbyists than professional media outlets.

Ryzen CPUs have had an “Eco mode” option for a long, long time now. In the case of my 5800X, enabling Eco mode sets the max TDP at 65 watts, plus some other stuff. I get about 25%-30% power savings in exchange for a 10%-15% performance reduction, plus the CPU puts out a lot less heat, which is also nice, it’s a very fair trade, but it is a trade.

Google “Ryzen Eco mode benchmarks,” that’ll get you started.

Neat!

o7