floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoUnreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performancewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down12
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-linkUnreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performancewww.tomshardware.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square57fedilink
minus-squareEtherWhack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWasn’t that before they switched to LGA though?
minus-squareelgordino@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThey’ve committed to support AM5 (the LGA socket launched 2022) through at least 2027. https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/amd-promises-am5-socket-life-support-through-to-2027-and-beyond/#
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThis is a solid policy. AFAIK even with ancient Asus B350 Board, you can use Ryzen 5800X3D - which is still a solid gaming CPU
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoYep. I was debating it because I still had a 1700x, bit the bullet and went with the 7800x3d In three years I probably still won’t need a cpu upgrade, but the last AM5 x3d will give me another 3-4 years into am6
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWasn’t what? They still sell AM4 chips to this day.
Wasn’t that before they switched to LGA though?
They’ve committed to support AM5 (the LGA socket launched 2022) through at least 2027.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/amd-promises-am5-socket-life-support-through-to-2027-and-beyond/#
This is a solid policy. AFAIK even with ancient Asus B350 Board, you can use Ryzen 5800X3D - which is still a solid gaming CPU
Yep.
I was debating it because I still had a 1700x, bit the bullet and went with the 7800x3d
In three years I probably still won’t need a cpu upgrade, but the last AM5 x3d will give me another 3-4 years into am6
Wasn’t what? They still sell AM4 chips to this day.