floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down15
arrow-up1262arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square48linkfedilink
minus-squareelgordino@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year 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-up6·1 year 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-squarefloofloof@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI upgraded my main PC from a Ryzen 5 3600 to a Ryzen 9 5950X and it was completely straightforward. The CPU runs cool too. Definitely sticking with AMD unless they do something as bad as what intel is doing.
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
I upgraded my main PC from a Ryzen 5 3600 to a Ryzen 9 5950X and it was completely straightforward. The CPU runs cool too. Definitely sticking with AMD unless they do something as bad as what intel is doing.