5900X or 5950X...that is the question

[BrickedKeyboard]

Ok, so RNJesus (and a stock tracking discord) have smiled one me.  I (finally) have a 5900X on the way, and a first 15-minute B&H preorder of a 5950X that probably will ship eventually.  So which CPU should I rip my scrublord-class 5600X out of the socket for?  

 

5900X

          +load is spread among 2 chiplets so each runs cooler

          +from what I can google, it often does better in gaming than 5950X 

          +very few workloads benefit from 12 vs 16 cores, even well threaded programs often hit a limit around 4-10 worker threads + a main thread (Amdahl's law is a law, not a rule of thumb..

5950X

          +more cache

          +more bragging rights

          +more stock clock

          +better quality silicon - the chiplets in a 5900X are two that didn't make the cut to be an 8 core.

[Moonzy]

if budget isnt a constraint and u can benefit from extra cores, go for the 5950x

 

or else, 5900x might've been better overall

[SupaKomputa]

3 minutes ago, BrickedKeyboard said:

          +better quality silicon - the chiplets in a 5900X are two that didn't make the cut to be an 8 core.

What make you sure it's a binned product?

They can't make it all 5950x if the yields are good and theres no defective cores, right? Who would buy them?

So im pretty sure not all 5900x are defective, but 4 healty cores are just disabled.

[BrickedKeyboard]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

What make you sure it's a binned product?

They can't make it all 5950x if the yields are good and theres no defective cores, right? Who would buy them?

So im pretty sure not all 5900x are defective, but 4 healty cores are just disabled.

I don't know this.  However Linux himself has mentioned that the pricing seems indicative of this.  But sure, it could be that they did this, it depends on secret yields.