CGI-Quality said:
Pemalite said:
Your rig is still pretty potent all things considered.
Although the 5950X will easily out-bench the 10980XE, even with 2 less cores.. AMD is just ripping it up at the moment, which is what sold me, there is also the potential for a Ryzen refresh this year with a "3D cache".
We are at that point where high-end CPU's are just ridiculous from an IPC and Core count perspective, in the real world, you wouldn't be able to tell our CPU's apart with general usage.
Ryzen 6950X+128GB DDR5+Radeon 7900XT next year sounds appetizing.
Keeping a watchful eye on Intel though, I may just switch back if their next gen CPU's pan out. |
You know me, I stand by Intel. :P
That said, they need to step their game up. There's no reason that the 10980XE isn't the clear winner in a lot of benches (as past Extreme Core Procs easily were). They've let AMD find a nice little pocket and currently have no answer for it (sorry Alder Lake kids, that ain't enough)!  The rumor mill mentions their next HEDT platform (X699). We'll see where that goes, because a true successor to the 10980XE + 128-256GB of DDR5 + a 4090 (or two) is something I'm looking towards, particularly as I'm now building bigger CG worlds and far more complex characters. |
Just like consoles, I'm not married to any specific brand, just what provides the best price/performance... And AMD's Ryzen is dominating the industry right now.
The only reason I didn't go threadripper/epyc is because it's still Zen 2 based... Higher IPC and clockrates won the purchase decision and Zen 3 won out. (Plus platform investment next year.)
