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yes…the Ryzen 5000 / 6000 APU’s are where it’s likely to get really interesting.

Ryzen 5000 is supposed to be first gen DDR5 and it would put egg on AMD’s face if they didn’t bring the APU’s to the same architecture generation. it would make no sense to any Ryzen 5000 CPU’s that are still AM4 when most are gong to be AM5, or whatever the new socket will be called.

DDR5 is also going to be crazy fast. that will give a big boost to APU performance as well.

and as a silly fantasy, it would be cool if AMD released a Threadripper class APU and let the GPU access octo channel memory. :wink:

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With the size of TR, I would expect one stack of HBM2 (= 8GB, 256GBit/s bandwidth) on the package, which would be bonkers for the GPU as latency is a problem (AFAIK) with DDR-type memory.

But yes, remains fantasy/dream.

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Future looks bright thats for sure

565

What do y’all think, for $350-400:
RX 5700 (XT or non-XT dependent on exact cost and availability)
RTX 2060 Super
Used Titan XP (not the Xp, the X Pascal)

566

I like my XT but depending on what games or software you run the 2060 super will be better. I haven’t ever looked into the titan cards though but there’s some cool comparison tools to get you an idea of what to expect.

If you have or plan on VR, Nvidia is much nicer implemented for it than AMD currently.

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I mean, as far as games…
AOE 1&2
Alien: Isolation
Aliens vs. Predator
Arkham Origins
Bayonetta
BioShock seires
Blades of Time
BlazBlue
Borderlands series
CSGO
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
DiRT 3
Dirty Bomb
Dishonored series
Doom (2016)
Elder Scrolls series (though Skyrim SE, yes, I have modded the FUCK outta Skyrim)
Fable
Fallout 3
FF VII/X/X-2/XIII/XIII-2/XIII-3
Hellblade
Kingdom: New Lands
Mass Effect 1-3
Metagal
Shadow of Mordor
NieR:Automata
Ori and the Blind Forest
Paladins
Papers, Please
Tomb Raider (2013 and after)
Civ VI
Skullgirls
Subnautica
Undertale
Warframe
Witcher series
X-Blades
Anthem
Crysis 3
Peggle
Guild Wars 2
Minecraft

Beyond that, I have been trying to learn DaVinci Resolve and have been toying with different CAD software just for shits and giggles.

568

I mean the latest pc I built I chose the 5700xt and its been great for the guy I built it for runs absolutely everything and crushed my 1080 in benchmarks so I can say that its a very decent card for the money.

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The 5700xt is faster than the 2060 Super by 5 to 15%.
At the same price, take the 5700xt. At 10 to 20% less, take the 2060 Super

The Titan X (Pascal) depending on price may be a good option too, especially looking at the titles you listed.

570

$349+shipping (Houston to San Antonio) with the original box and a EK waterblock and backplate thrown in.

571

Definetly the most bang for buck out of the options. Titan under water should also be near silent.

572

USB
The awesome idea that maybe not every device should have its own exotic connector.
USB-IF
The group that brought us USB 3.1, Gen 1 (aka SuperSpeed, not to be confused with USB SuperSpeed 10Gbps or SuperSpeed 20Gbps)

Enjoy:


Meanwhile at Intel (the creators of Thunderbolt):
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Case: Aerocool Strike X One (yep, it’s an old case that I got back in 2015)
Motherboard: MSI B450M BAZOOKA PLUS
CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X (Ryzen Wraith Cooler)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB DDR4 3000MHz & ADATA XPG 8GB DDR4 3000MHz (yeah, they are different brands but at least they have the same frequency, though it would have been much ideal if I bought similar RAMs instead of different brands.)
GPU: GIGABYTE GAMING RX 580 4GB
Storage: ADATA SX8200 NVMe M.2 500GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
PSU: Seasonic EcoPlus Bronze 650W
Monitor: ASUS TUF GAMING VG259QM (This is the one that I got as a gift, and I love this new monitor.)
Mouse: Steelseries Rival 100 (It is pretty used up and beaten up that some of its skin are peeling off, after all this is a mouse that I got back in 2016.)
Keyboard: Tecware Phantom Elite TKL 87 Keys Gateron Brown Switches.

My build is not special but it is good enough for me.

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Ryzen 4000 Pro APU benchmarks surface.

4750G is as fast as a 3700 and the iGPU is better than a 2GB RX 550 in FireStrike & TimeSpy synhetic benchmarks and having 8 cores monolithic design giving lower latency and the faster 3200mhz RAM, it seems to give it the needed boost to have decent average frame rates on some games as well.

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That’s really good. makes me excited to see what the full Zen3 4000s can do when they’re released.

576

indeed. AMD sent out another notice that Zen 3 is still coming in 2020, but now there is concern that it will be just for OEM’s and not actually available to the consumer. sorta how the APU’s have been announced, but they’re only available to the OEM, not released to the consumer channel.

577

To absolutely no surprise:

578

have they sorted out their 10nm issues? lack of product availability seems to indicate they don’t have good yields still.

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I am going to bet safely here and say Intel 10nm is still SNAFU.

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I could have sworn I had heard they wrote off 10nm as a lost cause, but I could be wrong

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how cocky was intel that they didn’t anticipate this shit from amd? klike they had 2 years for ryzen to actually become competitive. now they are, they shit the bed