Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
spotted that something was a bit rotten in the Denmark of the Ryzen 7 5800XT and Ryzen 9 5900XT gaming numbers AMD put out to promote the chips.The problem with those claims is multifold, and it starts like this. The"new" AMD CPUs are minor tweaks of existing chips based on the Zen 3 architecture. The 5800XT is an eight-core CPU with specs very close to the existing Ryzen 7 5700X, while the 5900XT is a 16-core alternative that's specced to within a whisker of the Ryzen 9 5950X.
Such is the gap in age between the 5800XT and the 13600K, we don't have our own comparison numbers. But we do have theNow, the 5800XT does have a 200MHz higher maximum boost clock than the old 5700X. But it's otherwise identical and that's a mere 4% increase in peak theoretical operating frequency. The chances that translates into not just closing a 28% performance deficit, but actuallyKeep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
More to the point, anyone remotely well informed would understand this. So, whoever signed off the benchmark numbers either doesn't understand PC technology and gaming or was intentionally aiming to mislead. There really aren't other options. That's a pity because the 5800XT and 5900XT are not bad CPUs if you don't oversell them. It's good to have a little life injected into the old AM4 socket. But the chips are what they are, namely based on the Zen 3 CPU architecture, now 3.5 years and two generations old. Trying to fancy them up into something they're not is just awfully poor form.
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