We owe you an explanation...

[Ankh Tech]

33 minutes ago, Kid.Lazer said:

SponsorBlock skips it for me, so...

Fair enough I guess

[LizardDoggo]

I’ve noticed that the amount of games being tested for hardware over the past few months has stayed relatively narrow and stagnant. If this is MarkBench at work or just me, I do not know. To effectively get a grasp on a cpu’s performance, I think more applications need to be tested. I get that time is limited and doing testing by hand is tedious, but I think it helps by not just running in-game benchmarks. Especially with the Ryzen 7000X3D chips, many in the Flight Simulator community are looking towards how that game will perform. Testing more applications, not just the ones that MarkBench can do (or games with included benchmarks) will make the conclusions much more sound. 

[Witnessthis]

Did you do any testing on linux? I'm specifically wondering if the scheduling optimizations work. Great review otherwise. I for one decided not to buy the x-variant due to the high TDP so the efficiency of these cores are welcome.

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

The advantage of having LTT Labs shone through the whole review.

[Streetguru]

4 hours ago, Kid.Lazer said:

SponsorBlock skips it for me, so...

you really don't have an extra 30 seconds to spare?

[Gaires]

Honestly, 7950X3D and 7900X3D are completely pointless products, since they are basically 8 cores and 6 cores respectively so why not just release 7800X3D that's been pushed to the limit, you can even ask premium for it on the basis that it's the fastest gaming cpu. Then you can release 7600X3D as the budget option for the masses.

[Kid.Lazer]

18 hours ago, Streetguru said:

you really don't have an extra 30 seconds to spare?

For what? Something I don't care about anyway? All I did was set up sponsor block ONCE, and now it requires no input on my part (thanks to the wonderful random people that supply the skip segments).

[Alvin853]

In today's video der8auer talks about variance between multiple units of the same SKU. 

 

Have you ever considered that the first 7950X3D you got maybe wasn't bad, it just wasn't meant to be sent to reviewers? Are there any guarantees reviewers don't get hand picked "golden sample" chips to make the CPUs look better on release? Do you ever anonymously buy retail chips after launch and compare them to the review sample you received directly from the manufacturer, to see if there is any trickery going on?