AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Click OC on Air Cooling

Re:AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Clic... by c2h5oh on Sunday February 26, 2017 @02:16PM (#13739141)

While still true it might not be for long: "advanced amateur" small formal SLRs with 36mpix @42bpp now start below $2000 and 24mpix @36bpp in the lower part of $500-1000 bracket.

https://www.adorama.com/ipxk1.html https://www.adorama.com/inkd810.html https://www.adorama.com/inkd7100.html

Which brings a slightly unrelated note: people seem to be blissfully unaware that you need less than 9mpix for a 12x9" 300 dpi print or that the zoom lens they bought with the camera has sharpness that effectively limits the resolution to 5-10, maybe 12 mpix if they are lucky. But megapixel count is easy to sell -> race for more megapixels -> smaller physical pixels -> more signal amplification needed -> more noise / general lower photo quality.

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Re:AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Clic... by mozumder on Sunday February 26, 2017 @07:45PM (#13741007)

I used to shoot 33megapixel medium format cameras 10 years ago, on 8GB machines with 1GB GPUs just fine, doing multilayer photoshop on 48-bits-per-pixel TIFFs.

64Gb is completely unnecessary for photography. Photographers don't even go over 16GB.

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