> It's a flop for people who expect that after 20months, they'll get 13%-18% more.
If you have unrealistic expectations, everything, everywhere is always going to be a flop.
You're not getting 18% more IPC at 30% energy savings in a single generation. That kind of uplift hasn't been seen probably since Pentium 3 vs Pentium 4 era, or maybe Nehalem vs Core Duo.
Regardless, if you run the Zen 5 CPUs at the same TDPs as the 7000 series, you can still easily get 15-20% uplift. It's just that AMD has chosen conservative defaults for energy efficiency.
And purely for gaming, you should be waiting for X3D versions.
If you have unrealistic expectations, everything, everywhere is always going to be a flop.
You're not getting 18% more IPC at 30% energy savings in a single generation. That kind of uplift hasn't been seen probably since Pentium 3 vs Pentium 4 era, or maybe Nehalem vs Core Duo.
Regardless, if you run the Zen 5 CPUs at the same TDPs as the 7000 series, you can still easily get 15-20% uplift. It's just that AMD has chosen conservative defaults for energy efficiency.
And purely for gaming, you should be waiting for X3D versions.