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Price point is what i am talking about and seriously after so many frames you can't even tell anymore as long there is no stuttering going on or lag.
Just because it has a better IPC and it is new and shinny doesn't make it better in the long run 12 cores will do the job and last a bit longer for these same scenarios.
The average user just doesn't play games anymore if that was just the case then yes i can see it but the price is still a turn off even a person with no Computer IQ would see 12 is better than 8 and would be inclined to ask why they're similar in pricing this is just my take
My IPC is not far behind which is why there is no point in upgrading for a marginal 10-15+ frames i won't notice
There is so much more into CPU computing than just cores and IPC. The 12- and 8-core CPUs are similarily priced because they are similar in performance.
I agree that more cores might last longer in the future, but we are not even close to that yet. If you run a ton of services and apps at the same time, sure more cores will perform a bit better, but if you run just a few apps at the same time, you won't notice any difference.
By only taking a look at all the Ryzen CPU generations AMD has released, you can see that there is a huge leap in performance for each generation in pretty much all workloads. And I'm not talking about benchmarking apps but real world performance numbers.
Upgrading is one thing, but if you buy new, pick the latest if they are same price compared to older generations. If I could afford a new PC today, I would not hesitate even once and would go for a Ryzen 5000-series build any time. They're really impressive.
Same goes for my laptop. A few Ryzen generations up and it would be 4x faster and use half the energy withsamedouble the amount of cores as I currently have. I'm actually kinda pissed that I can't afford an upgrade.
Update: Fixed wrong claims about CPU cores vs performance for laptop product.
Last edited by slicendice; 05 Apr 2021 at 08:24.
Honestly speaking the prices wouldn't even be close if we weren't in a Pandemic and Price gouging tactics on everything you want to use .
I'm sure this argument wouldn't be so critical if the last GEN was almost a $100+ cheaper know what i mean ?
Basically sticking to Ryzen 3 prices on 5000 Series and drop 3000 series prices by $100 or more just to move them