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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by winter_blue on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:49PM (#23225822)
> I’m hoping once the next generation of CPU, motherboard, and GPUs come out things won’t be as scarce

New desktop Intel 10th Gen CPU are actually coming out pretty soon. It's got a new socket (LGA 1200), so new motherboards are coming out for it as well.

It's only marginally faster on single thread benchmarks than the Ryzen 3000s (ie Zen 2) chips, and consumes a lot energy.

Also, Intel is still using their circa-2104/ancient 14 nm process for these desktop 10th Gen chips, which is quite disappointing. No Ice Lake 10 nm desktop chips yet.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by wishinghand on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:46PM (#23228147)
I was most likely going to stick with and AMD CPU, the intel power consumption and price per performance is a bit high for me. I’m mostly developing javascript and gaming so ultra high cpu performance isn’t as necessary.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by winter_blue on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:03AM (#23232458)
> javascript and gaming

Both of which are heavily impacted by single-thread performance. So getting a high single-thread perf CPIU would be a good thing to do.

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