So overall my thoughts after yesterdays press event from AMD:
- X3D is looking fantastic. Assuming the claims were true, I would say my recommendations of not buying zen 4 at launch were on point. If you waited till holiday season, zen 4 had massive discounts and if the performance wasn't worth it enough, now X3D is coming to the big boy skus.
- Non-X CPUs. Honestly these seem pretty pointless and pretty lame overall. The reason is that as mentioned in GNs video, the X skus has had discounts to similar price points to the non-X skus for a while. If AMD's plan is to release these non-X skus and then raise the prices of the X skus to normal levels and make X3D even more expensive, well that will simply be a shit move from AMD. Non-X skus should be cheaper imo and X skus should get a permanent discount and X3D should be replacing the original MSRPs.
- Zen 4 mobile is looking good on paper so far. We will need to see some actual tests done but we already know for a fact that there will be big battery wins. Their Ryzen Ai sounds interesting but we need actual software to make any use of it like how you can use RTX voice/broadcast with Nvidia. The biggest issue is the confusing and potentially miss leading names. Sounds like the 70xx are the important designator this time around so anything below a 7x40 such as 7x35 is old architecture which to the uninformed can be misleading.
- RDNA 3 mobile is looking like low end only? As their top chip that was announced was a 7600M XT and they are comparing it to a 3060, looks like Radeon, least for now, has handed the laptop gaming market to Nvidia. It does explain why we did not see Asus announcing Strix with Radeon. Very unexpected from team Red but could be a situation where RDNA 3 mobile was not ready.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
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