honestly, grab the highest end 12-16 core thing you can afford. the problem with those is that they're all 6 and 8 core processors. 10 years ago a quad core was a beast. a 7700k still beats many newer chips in single core speeds, but the core count just ain't there for gaming anymore. 6 cores are going the same way, 8 cores will be next. an i7 5960x is still a very usable chip and it came out 11 years ago. Hardware is reaching its technical limits of how much power we can physically cram (and more importantly, cool) inside a normal sized IHS. So i'm willing to bet a 7950x or an x3d would last you at least a decade, probably closer to 15 years, hell maybe even 20.

Going for any of the 8-core X3D chips is probably the best way to future proof for gaming.

X3D gives you the performance people will get only 4 years later with non-X3D CPUs.

Just take a look at the 5800X3D and how it still has similar performance as all non-X3D CPUs. And look how insanely far ahead is the 9800X3D.

9800X3D undervolted should last you a LONG time. For gaming as well as light productivity.

All the others depend very much on what you are planning to do in the future. You might be fine just sitting on a 7500F for the next 5 years, or you might not.

2-3 years is to long ... will miss ai boom

Funny : EX-AMD RAJA kadouri seems to have ordered AMD HW from Tinygrad/George hotz -

https://x.com/RajaXg/status/1965998056794632357 - tiny" box with 6 Radeons arrived today

u can see the box in the post

All about the TCO. Flops per watt baby! NVDA is now realizing their folly and starting to go into the same chiplet type philosophy from what I understand as a 5yr old. How much can you actually squeeze out of TSMC similar nodes?

Then what is it? The battle between closed and open source? I know where my money will go in that bet.

Nvidia has a 10x market cap. They are certainly not valued the same.

You can get a ryzen 7 5800x for like 140 on amazon right now

Not all AM4 cpus will be available, as they don't make some of them anymore I think. Unsure.

If you are buying a CPU for very specific games you should look at benchmarks for those specific games.

5700x3d

for AM4 gaming the 5800x3d or 5700x3d

Multiple reasons. Politics is the major one. Intel have got a lot to do with their CPUs getting better SKUs than AMD.

But AMD have only really got themselves to blame. A couple of years ago, when AMD CPUs were objectively better and OEMs specced them in their systems, they couldn't deliver any of them. The OEMs got burned. You can understand them not being willing to take the risk again.

Rumours are also flowing around that AMD chips are now more expensive than they used to be, so that advantage is gone too.

And frankly, the Intel CPUs are excellent now so it doesn't matter anyway. I'd even go ahead and argue they are generally better for most people in gaming laptops. The X3D CPUs, especially, are absolute dogshit at battery life

Legion Pro 7i with 9955HX3D maxing out at RTX5080 is just a kick in the gut - the best performing laptop CPU, but can't be paired with the best mobile GPU for some reason.

This has been talked about to death, AMD can’t compete in terms of supply and providing support to OEMs to create the board. Intel does and has been doing so for much longer.

As a business owner, would you rather sell a product with reliable supply thats slightly inferior or a product that’s slightly superior but with significantly lower supply?

It's been like that forever. That being said Intel Currently offers the best CPU at each segment

Best high battery: lunar lake Best balanced: arrow lake 255h Best high power: 275hx

Intel has actually got the BATTERY part down, and is well ahead of AMD.

And I've been the LOUDEST YouTube for years about people needing to consider AMD. But AMD fell asleep

Yep!

ryzen in laptops is fantastic...theres nothing really bad about em to say, other than i wish more super low power configs existed. (like sub 10w stuff) because rn, my favorite device is my surface with snapdrsgon in it because of its battery life.

i wana see more competition in this area.

Gf got ap laptop with an ryzen 7 that is alrdy 2-3 yrs old.. and still absolutely crushes it performance wise… especially if you consider shes one of those people eho constantly got about 30 tabs open in her browser at all times… Also doing extremely well on battery life too. Cant say much about intel on mobile tho admittedly.

Intel's CPU architecture is fine tuned for operating in low power budgets, it is greatly superior in laptops.

Unfortunately, AMD's GPU architecture is waaaay beyond what Intel achieves, and we're more often GPU limited than CPU limited in a laptop.

1080p or 1440p ? For photo editing and multitasking I would take an 8 cores cpu

It's ok, I'd want to fix a few things like that poor quality power supply, case, NVME, and the stock cooler.

Looks perfect for what you're planning to do

So glad you shared this and that the replies are good. I’m considering buying this myself!

Good luck

get it, seems correct value

Looking good!

More than capable of handling these games at 1080p and your photo editing. Since it's the current platform, you could easily swap the CPU put for something better in the future. The CPU cooler is pretty crappy but will do fine for that CPU. That's another thing you can upgrade down the line. You'll probably want to add more storage at some point. 1tb fills up quickly. Overall, I think it's a good entry-level PC at a good price.

Piece by piece as close as I could get costs about the same price. So yeah, it's a good deal.

shows $449 on my Amazon

This website…. Idk man.

So AMD 6 core era is now the new Intel 4 core era. They're gonna milk consumers with this bullshit for years to come until Intel steps up with competition.

So 9600x with no igpu

Certified Aliexpress classic

Ali express is gonna have field day with this one

ok but how about an international release