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If the new chips were actually faster than than current line. i.e. Ryzen 9 5950X has higher frequencies and Ryzen 7 5800XT increases boost only by 0.1GHz over Ryzen 7 5800X while Ryzen 9 5900X has more cores and same boost clock. I hardly see anybody upgrading due to 0.1GHz, I'm curious though, what is your rationale? Perhaps you have a slower CPU and you would upgrade since the prices came down?
I am speaking about in general. Newer faster CPUs are something worth being happy about.
This being said there is more to CPUs than raw clock speeds. A major component is IPC uplift. For example if a new cpu has a 20% IPC improvement over an older CPU when they both run at say 3.5Ghz the newer CPU will do things 20% faster. It’s pretty cool stuff.
In the case of the CPUs you mentioned it looks like there was a 16% IPC uplift over last gen and last gen had a 18% uplift over the 5xxx series. I would be happy to have my code compile 16% + 18% faster.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/amd-announces-zen-5-and-the-ryzen-9000-series-with-a-16-ipc-uplift-shipping-in-july/
That would be great if that was the case. However you were probably mislead by the title - that IPC increase applies only to 9XXX beasts (Zen 5), not these two AM4 refreshes. At least that's how I understand it.
I was not in fact mislead. I actually went and found that article to help explain the concept of IPC uplift to you.
I was speaking of why new CPUs are a good thing worth being excited by in general. You were the one who said new CPUs aren’t worth being excited about in general.
As a bonus I showed how new CPUs even at the same speed have advantages. This all being said hey if you want to be a downer here go for it.
The new CPUs for AM4 socket. Aren't we talking about AM4 as per post title?
Edit: Probably I should have made it clearer...new new AM5 ones are of course welcome and cool.