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photon · 03-02-2017, 10:22 AM

Reviews of the AMD CPU are coming in and looks like it's pretty decent for a workstation CPU by virtue of the # of cores, competes really well against 8 core Intel CPUs for encoding and content creation, anything that works well multi-threaded, and considering the AMD is half the price of the Intel it's really good there.

Gaming though seems to be lackluster. The per-thread performance is lower than Intel and desktop gaming is still very much influenced by single thread performance, so gaming benchmarks lag behind, though the higher the resolution the less that gap is.

But for the average PC user, AMD is a very valid choice again. And for content creation or encoding, it's a complete win over Intel's 6950X class with performance at half the cost for the CPU, and the surrounding components are going to be much cheaper than Intel's as well.

03-02-2017, 10:22 AM	#296
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	Reviews of the AMD CPU are coming in and looks like it's pretty decent for a workstation CPU by virtue of the # of cores, competes really well against 8 core Intel CPUs for encoding and content creation, anything that works well multi-threaded, and considering the AMD is half the price of the Intel it's really good there. Gaming though seems to be lackluster. The per-thread performance is lower than Intel and desktop gaming is still very much influenced by single thread performance, so gaming benchmarks lag behind, though the higher the resolution the less that gap is. But for the average PC user, AMD is a very valid choice again. And for content creation or encoding, it's a complete win over Intel's 6950X class with performance at half the cost for the CPU, and the surrounding components are going to be much cheaper than Intel's as well. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.