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Review Zen4 3D review thread

Raptor Lake is the current competition for Zen 4 3D, and RPL has been discussed all over this thread unless you're completely blind. Or are we just not allowed to discuss anything negative about Zen 4 3D?. And @PhonakV30 posted three reviews which have some much needed context to elucidate the...
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- Post #130
- Feb 28, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Review Zen4 3D review thread

The 7950X3D is an impressive CPU for gaming, but it's far from the "domination" that several forum members predicted. With stock for stock memory, it slightly edges the 13900K, which is ironic because several members have argued that the 7700x/7950x was on par or even faster than the 13900K...
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- Post #122
- Feb 28, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Review Zen4 3D review thread

Spider-Man remastered doesn't use the efficiency cores to compile the shaders, it uses them for decompression. The 200w figure is due to the game being run at 720p with maxed settings with an RTX 4090, which increases the CPU load, for testing purposes. But in an actual gaming workload, the...
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- Post #121
- Feb 28, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Speculation: Zen 4 (EPYC 4 "Genoa", Ryzen 7000, etc.)

It ebbs and flows with the dominance of the preferred IHV at the time. Intel dominance on this forum was strong when AMD was pumping out garbage CPUs, at least comparatively speaking to Intel's offerings. And when Intel hit a brick wall at 10nm and stopped progressing for a long time and AMD's...
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- Post #12,109
- Feb 21, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Speculation: Zen 4 (EPYC 4 "Genoa", Ryzen 7000, etc.)

Come back to reality. They can't be incompetent in every single thing they do can they? I was a subscriber of theirs for many years, and only after what I considered were relatively speaking a few major screw ups did I unsubscribe and turn my back on them. I don't know what you mean by the...
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- Post #12,010
- Feb 16, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Speculation: Zen 4 (EPYC 4 "Genoa", Ryzen 7000, etc.)

I guess we'll see. I don't think it will be a knockout blow like you suggest. Cache can only get you so far, and Zen 4 already has a big gap between it and RPL when using "garbage memory."
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- Post #12,008
- Feb 16, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Speculation: Zen 4 (EPYC 4 "Genoa", Ryzen 7000, etc.)

If I'm gaslighting, then you're strawmanning. I never said at any time that there weren't reviewers in the past that used overclocked memory. That's been going on for a long time, though I would wager most stuck to standard memory, especially for launch reviews. The further you go back, the...
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- Post #12,007
- Feb 16, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Speculation: Zen 4 (EPYC 4 "Genoa", Ryzen 7000, etc.)

How is it extrapolation? The underlying issue of Zen 4's poorly implemented memory system is to blame, which is why Zen 4 does so poorly in gaming benchmarks with it's stock memory. It's already been discussed countless times in this very thread, as memory performance is very important for...
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- Post #12,005
- Feb 16, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Speculation: Zen 4 (EPYC 4 "Genoa", Ryzen 7000, etc.)

It's not incumbent on reviewers to use overclocked memory to make a CPU look better than it actually is. Why should AMD get a pass all of a sudden for using optimized memory, when these websites have been using standardized memory for years in their reviews? You're making it seem as though...
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- Post #12,001
- Feb 16, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Raptor Lake - Official Thread

By benchmark I'm pretty sure he meant memory benchmarks. And it wasn't a benchmark. I just had performance monitoring software running to see what the FPS was. That said, the frame pacing in that game is so bad that unless it's a huge FPS increase, it's practically impossible to notice a 2...
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- Post #4,430
- Feb 16, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Raptor Lake - Official Thread

Yes but the main problem with the HWUB result is that the power draw is significantly higher, but the performance was less than the 7600x. That's why I had such a big issue with it. The Computerbase.de review shows the 13600K using more power, but also delivering more performance. It's OK...
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- Post #4,428
- Feb 16, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Raptor Lake - Official Thread

I actually did notice a difference, but in just one game. Witcher 3 Next gen. That game uses a DX12 wrapper, so the CPU optimization is terrible and makes it very CPU dependent.....even at 4K with maxed settings including RT. My FPS went up by 2 FPS in one of the heaviest sections in...
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- Post #4,427
- Feb 16, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Raptor Lake - Official Thread

Quoted for truth. Motherboards can vary immensely when it comes to secondary and tertiary timings. I found this out myself, when started messing around with sub timings. Regardless of the frequencies I used, for some reason I was never able to get under 60ns for latency. I tried all the way...
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- Post #4,424
- Feb 15, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Raptor Lake - Official Thread

For the record, I never had any issues with using faster memory. I myself am using it. But people need to understand why reviewers may opt to use the standard memory configuration for a CPU. The number one reason cited is because it's the "out of the box experience" and guaranteed to work...
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- Post #4,418
- Feb 15, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Raptor Lake - Official Thread

Computerbase.de did some testing on gaming power consumption and found that the 13600K used 88w on average across 12 titles, whle the 7600x used 60w. Just 28w difference. Computerbase.de also ranked the 13600K 14% faster than the 7600x, and 7% faster than the 7700x at 720p with an RTX 3090 Ti...
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- Post #4,417
- Feb 15, 2023
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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