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          Explain how AMD naming works. I’m so confused as it is pretty hard to understand plus they randomly will violate there own conventions.

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      Make sure to get your 5900x3d with your 7900XTX. Note that one is a CPU and the other is a GPU. For extra fun, their numbers should eventually overlap given their respective incrementation schemes. The 5900x3d is the successor to the 5900xd, which is a major step down in performance even though it has more cores.

      I’m gonna give this award to Intel, which has increased the numbers on their CPU line by 1000 every generation since before the 2008 housing crash.

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      3 days ago

      Honestly my preferred manufacturer since I started putting together my own machines.

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        The only thing you should realistic understand from the naming conventions is relative generations and which bracket of price/performance the part targets. Assuming more than that is just a mistake.

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        3 days ago

        Is it not still “higher better” at AMD? With the obvious X or “m”, but usually price reflects the specs when the numbers are the same.

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      Just ordered another CPU from them. Downside is that there isn’t any modern AMD desktop platform that works with coreboot, which seems to be the only workable way to deactivate the Management Engine/Platform Security Processor after boot.

      Was really considering to swap to Intel for that, but got a good deal on a Ryzen 9 that fits in my socket, so…