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AMD 4700S CPU Reviewed: Defective PS5 Chips Find New Life

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-4700s-desktop-kit-ps5-cpu-review

Now there are a few ways to look at this. If you skim through the results, you would think that the CPU is a super potato but the way to look at this is to ignore all the gaming benchmarks because the 3090 is being bottlenecked by the PCI-E Gen 2 interface and only look at the CPU benchmarks.

The most interesting thing is the difference in latency between DDR4 and GDDR6. If you ever wonder why Desktops don't use GDDR6 as ram for the CPU... Well this is why... (Lower the better)

As for the CPU performance, while it's single threaded is only slightly lower than 3800X, it's multi-threaded is only slightly ahead of the 1800X. Due to the low cache and high memory latency, it makes sense. With console optimization and added hardware decompression blocks and such, it's probably perform somewhere between Zen + and Zen 2. Suffices to say, the CPU won't be an issue for the consoles this gen. The dream would have been to pair that up with an Nvidia GPU but that would have probably added another $100 to the price so probably not worth it.



                  

PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850