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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core CPU Processor $948 + Delivery ($0 to Metro/ mVIP/ NSW C&C) @ Mwave
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Not unless Intel comes out with something competitive. Even then, this is a lot of processing power to go down so low. 32 logical cores!!!
Hmm, why doesn't Intel have anything to compete with this?
Because they're rooted.
They no longer make enough money to pay for the very expensive fabs that they need to make the money that they need to pay for the fabs that they need to make the money…
Every new generation of chips has sunk costs of tens of billions of dollars. If you don't have that spare cash sitting around every single generation then you can't keep up with the competition.
@MrZ: AMD don't make their own chips like Intel - they're just a customer for other people's fabs.
The next question is, why don't Intel dump their fabs and do the same thing ? And the answer is that the best fabs don't have any spare capacity - Intel would have to massively overpay to get the capacity that was going to be used by the likes of AMD, nVidia, Apple, Samsung etc.
Intel's plan to escape this death spiral was to start renting out their fab capacity to others - but unfortunately they failed to find any customers and they've had never-ending delays with the latest process.
It's a fascinating story, and as I said in the first post, they are well and truly rooted right now.
How are they going to get out of this mess ? That's the billion dollar question. It's completely possible that they will no longer exist.
Plot twist : the best fabs are owned by TSMC. And they're mostly in Taiwan. The same Taiwan that China is interested in right now. Imagine the scenario where China fully control the manufacture of the fastest processors - that's a nightmare scenario for a country like the USA. There's a couple of TSMC fabs in the USA, but nowhere near enough to meet the demand of "the west".
Bought this one for 1140 a couple weeks ago. Amazing CPU. Sky's the limit.
Unfortunate that it's been dropping in price the day after I bought it but oh well, can't always win.
Are these 16 performance cores or 16 total (performance+efficiency) cores, similar to what Intel has?
All performance cores
Best to save money and get a 9800X3D instead - it has virtually identical gaming performance to the 9950X3D.
Is this the next target on our radar for $750