AMD blows minds with a 16-core 7nm gaming CPU

[tthurman]

that works like any other Ryzen

The $750 Ryzen 9 3950X is coming this September, and it fits into an AM4 motherboard

I hope this hits Intel where it hurts and brings competition back to the market.  Intel has been lazy and greedy since the took the lead back.  Go AMD!

 

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3401086/amds-ryzen-9-3950x-is-a-16-core-cpu-aiming-to-topple-intels-gaming-dominance.html

 

[Tom Speirs]

Oh well. Just got a new 2950x setup.

Have to say though, very happy with it. No real issues. Stable enough for me. Can recommend.

[RIP-Felix]

How many applications are even taking full advantage of 4 cores, let alone 16! From what I've read it's a PITA for devs to code multi threaded applications. We've already hit a thermal wall with frequency increases generating too much heat. Miniaturization is nearing it's limit too. So in the future, it's ARM and Multi threading that offer increases in performance. That must keep software developers up at night!

[Draco1962]

I can see the need for multi-core/threaded systems for server apps requiring wide simultaneous access.

[Tom Speirs]

Actually its piss easy for developers to code multi threaded apps on PC's. Maybe your thinking of old gen consoles?

[RIP-Felix]

Yeah, maybe what I read was talking about emulating consoles, where multi threading isn't really as useful as clock speed...IDK. In any case, If the program wasn't designed from the beginning to take advantage of multiple cores, then it won't see any performance increase. Is it easy to future proof an app, where it can take advantage of as many cores as any future processor may have? Or would there likely be a limit, like a max of 8 or 16 or whatever? If so, then there won't be any universal benefit to legacy applications like clock speed was.

Interesting video on the future of Intel and AMD vs ARM:

Spoiler

 

 

[Tom Speirs]

The topic title in regarding to "Gaming PC" is a bit misleading. They are referring to the other Ryzen CPUs, not threadrippers in regard to that.

Games currently rarely take advantage of threading but its good for other stuff.