I assume they meant that gaming is the main market segment it serves, which from my understanding is correct. The X3D chips have great performance in games, which are generally constrained by memory latency. It's, of course, still a general purpose CPU that can do many things.
X3D is marketed as a gaming feature and benchmarks bear that out. Productivity workloads (video editing, compiling code, etc) benefit very little from the extra cache. You're better off buying a chip without it and a higher core count.
It is indeed a desktop CPU chip, but the 3dV cache is real good for gaming, thus it's also marked in that region.
From the official AMD website:
> Whatever the setting or resolution, lead your team to victory with elite gaming performance from a powerful 8‑core AMD gaming processor featuring AMD 3D V‑Cache™ technology.
I'm usually one to say the same thing, but unless you're doing something that specifically hits instruction cache hard, for most productivity workloads (compiling, video editing, etc) you're better off foregoing the cache and getting a CPU with more threads.
I assume they meant that gaming is the main market segment it serves, which from my understanding is correct. The X3D chips have great performance in games, which are generally constrained by memory latency. It's, of course, still a general purpose CPU that can do many things.
X3D is marketed as a gaming feature and benchmarks bear that out. Productivity workloads (video editing, compiling code, etc) benefit very little from the extra cache. You're better off buying a chip without it and a higher core count.
It is indeed a desktop CPU chip, but the 3dV cache is real good for gaming, thus it's also marked in that region.
From the official AMD website:
> Whatever the setting or resolution, lead your team to victory with elite gaming performance from a powerful 8‑core AMD gaming processor featuring AMD 3D V‑Cache™ technology.
I'm usually one to say the same thing, but unless you're doing something that specifically hits instruction cache hard, for most productivity workloads (compiling, video editing, etc) you're better off foregoing the cache and getting a CPU with more threads.
True, I suppose it is also useful for video editing and other uses.
The article describe it as a gaming chip, though. Might be because of the site's target audience? I don't know them.
> Might be because of the site's target audience?
Yes, but also because of official AMD marketing:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/70...
> with elite gaming performance from a powerful 8‑core AMD gaming processor
I would also call it a gaming CPU, because it is what it excels at. ¯\(ツ)/¯