By: john (john.ral8.delete@this.gmail.com), August 10, 2019 10:54 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on August 9, 2019 3:29 pm wrote:
> But I'm on a i9-9900K right now, and honestly, Ryzen 3950X looks like a very tempting and obvious
> next upgrade. I can still do a quiet machine with something in the 105W range.
>
There are still a few really big gotchas.
AMD marketing on the specs is just misleading.
Your 9900K can easily do 5 GHz on a few cores and 4.7 GHz on all cores. You can also most likely reliability overclock the whole chip to >= 5 GHz on all cores. Although the 3950X isn't out yet, the 3900X can't even get to the advertised 4.6 GHz no matter what setup/cooling. Most people have a hard time getting to 4.4 on a single core.
And in ~October Comet Lake will bring more cores and even higher frequency. I am sure those clocks will certainly be attainable.
> But I'm on a i9-9900K right now, and honestly, Ryzen 3950X looks like a very tempting and obvious
> next upgrade. I can still do a quiet machine with something in the 105W range.
>
There are still a few really big gotchas.
AMD marketing on the specs is just misleading.
Your 9900K can easily do 5 GHz on a few cores and 4.7 GHz on all cores. You can also most likely reliability overclock the whole chip to >= 5 GHz on all cores. Although the 3950X isn't out yet, the 3900X can't even get to the advertised 4.6 GHz no matter what setup/cooling. Most people have a hard time getting to 4.4 on a single core.
And in ~October Comet Lake will bring more cores and even higher frequency. I am sure those clocks will certainly be attainable.