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So after a week of Zen 4/AM5 news, this is pretty much what I can gather:

- Zen 4 may be slower than 5800X3D in gaming as AMD themselves isn't sure if it's faster
- Much higher TDP
- Only 15% increase in Single Threaded uplift
- DDR5 only even for budget boards
- A lot more IO capabilities
- A lot faster in blender compared to Intel
- B650 can overclock and has PCI-E gen 5 for storage only while Intel doesn't allow you to CPU overclock with B660 but can allow PCI-E gen 5 for GPU and Storage depending on the motherboard.
- AMD doesn't know how long they will support AM5

Now clearly, AMD had to put out a lot of clarification after their presentation and they even mentioned that 15% is "conservative" which could either be a PR thing to try and calm people down or as the twitter people are calling it "sandbagging." Personally if what we see is what we get and the types of crazy sales that CPUs intend to have when the "next" one comes out, unless you are planning on upgrading the CPU later down the line, I think Intel might be the easy answer for most builds if Zen 4's pricing ends up being similar to Zen 3.

But I do think that AMD is being conservative and the reason is that Zen 4 is not ready for prime time until fall. And because of that, they need to keep selling Zen 3 while they wait hence why they are like, AM4 will continued to be supported for longer and etc. Plus going from 7nm to 5nm, increasing the clocks to 5.5ghz, having DDR5 and etc. It just doesn't make sense to only have a 15% single threaded uplift unless AMD royally goofed.

But we will see.