After seeing the press conference and articles and such, I think it's pretty clear that the "Pascal" days of Ryzen is over and now we are in the "Turing" era so to speak.
15% single traded uplift from 5950x in Cinebench is pretty disappointing to say the least. Even the 12900k is faster in single threaded than a 5950x in Cinebench. They do show Blender results but even the 5950x beats 12900k pretty handily in Blender. They do technically say > but generally that means >15% <20%. Hopefully they are low balling it so when it releases, it will be above expectations. But as Kopite said it in his tweet:
Zen4❌
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) May 23, 2022
Zen3++✔️
?????
I think the biggest knock though is the treatment of B650. With B550, it was essentially a baby X570. You had PCI-E Gen 4 for GPU and primary storage from X570 and you had CPU overclocking support from X570. Now with B650, it looks like you don't get overclocking nor do you get PCI-E Gen 5 for the GPU, you only get it for storage which is useless for most people.
The irony is if you are looking for a budget build, you may be better off with getting B550 + 5700x + DDR4 than going to B650 and spending a lot of money on DDR5 and (for now) marginal increase in CPU performance. I could be wrong but it doesn't even look like AM5 offers any DDR4 compatibility like Intel does with their budget series. And of course, you get further segmentation of X670 vs X670E when it comes to PCI-E gen 5 support.
Hopefully as we get closer to launch, the news will improve but so far, this is a pretty big disappointment from both a CPU performance stand point and a platform standpoint.
Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 23 May 2022 
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