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CGI-Quality said:

Pemalite said:

This is why I didn't waste my time going HEDT for the first time in... 15 years? The Ryzen 9 was just the best bang for buck that made HEDT entirely redundant.
The fact AMD potentially only supported Threadripper on one socket is just shit.

Truth be told... It was tempting to get 64 CPU cores, but I am also chasing per-thread performance... I want to be able to run Sins of a Solar Empire at full speed with max game speed... Ryzen 9 got near that... But not yet.

Either way, Intel is bringing some competition now, which is going to be beneficial for us in lowering CPU prices with some luck.

Ah, the HEDT train. One my line of work craves. MoRe cOrEs/tHrEadS.

Truth be told, I'm not a bang/buck guy. The advanced models and physics I work with means I generally chase what's the most powerful without breaking into the Quadro/Xeon bank. Intel is rumored to be stepping their HEDT game up with Sapphire Rapids X, so we'll what happens there, but they're consumer grade stuff has really been improved, so it won't be as clear cut as before.

Absolutely understand your need for more than just 16 Cores/32 threads @5ghz. :P

But go back 15 years and your options were mostly Dual/Quad cores... And there was tangible benefits going to a 6 core HEDT chip.. For almost everyone. Suddenly you could run a AAA demanding game on 4 cores whilst trans-coding on another two cores... All came down to multi-tasking. Or just play Civilization which would eat every thread it could get it's dirty little hands on.

Then you had the Ram as well, quad-channel platforms tended to offer a ton of available Ram... But considering I am sitting on 128GB of DDR4.. Not much of a need to go above that unless I feel like putting SSD's to shame.

What AMD did though is essentially remove the need for HEDT for people like myself, I can multi-task until the cows come home.

Obviously high-end professionals will always need more as they are always core/clock/ram limited, but for regular workstation power users like myself, Ryzen 9 is definitely a sweet spot.

Sapphire Rapids X definitely looks juicy, aiming to upgrade sometime later this year and give my current PC to my grandmother.
So see how the chips fall, Intel might win me back or I might stay out of the HEDT game for a bit longer. Price/Performance definitely wins out... And at these thread counts, single thread performance is definitely my main priority.