JEMC said:
One thing I don't understand about these 3D cache CPUs is the 7800X3D. My understanding was that launching the 5800X3D with lower clocks than the 5800X was a bit problematic for AMD, because there were some instances where the extra MHz made the regular CPU faster than the more expensive 3D one, and I thought that the launch of the 7700X was their answer to avoid that again, allowing AMD to launch a 7800X3D with the extra cache and the same or even higher clocks as the 7700X. But then you look at the specs, and see that the 7700X has a max boost of 5.4GHz while the upcoming 7800X3D will only boost to 5.0GHz. So the question is, why? Why launching the 7700X and not call it 7800X if they were going to make the same "mistake" again? Even the 7700 non-X will have a bigger boost, to 5.3GHz! |
AMDs marketing has largely been a disaster this gen with endless confusion. Most of what they have done has made little to no sense from a company that looked very professional and ready to take on the competition during Zen 3 and RDNA 2 launches. Like when I was watching their press event at ces with them announcing their mobile zen cpus, they kept calling them the "7040" like while showing like the 7940HS. It took a bit to catch on to to the fact that 7040 means that the number that changes is 7x40 while the rest stays the same. Its a very unconventional and frankly dumb naming scheme that imo is there to mislead people cause how are normal people going to understand that the difference between a true zen 4 chip and a zen 2 chip is 7x40 or 7x20 when its hard for tech people to understand?
Overall it just feels like there have been big internal changes to management and leadership that which instead of improving their brand image has all but managed to largely ruin them.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
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