Some believe AMD might be missing the mark by not releasing X3D chips at launch.
Some believe AMD might be missing the mark by not releasing X3D chips at launch.
It seems like the landscape is shifting with HEDT becoming less central and more prosumer hardware appearing on consumer boards. This change might not significantly impact prices, as people will adapt their expectations about slot contents. Higher-end chipsets are now favored for prosumer builds, while lower-end options are reserved for gaming. Similar to the situation with Ampere GPUs, the 3090/3090 Ti now fit in slots once used by GTX/RTX Titan models. Considering the current pricing trends, this adjustment makes sense, especially when comparing Intel's B660 boards, which mostly use PCIe 4.0 and are priced more reasonably than the expected 5.0 models.
AMD probably waiting for the process to get cheaper or more mature or both, otherwise the 3D variant going to cost a lot more than the non-3D.
I hope so. If midrange B650 boards are around $200, that's what I'd buy for myself and I'll keep going to the 7600x until I can find a 7800x3d at a good price (it'll be close to $500, that's disappointing)
FWIW, for compile tasks it's a 10% improvment at best, so you're better off going with a non-x3D model high more cores (assuming they're similarly priced). Also, for tasks that really saturate the cache, the extra cache won't be useful since you'll be fetching data from ram anyways, so you want tasks that can saturate the L2/L3, but not by much (and that's where it really excels at, like media transcoding or data de/compression). Why not just wait until the x3d models are available and buy a cheaper motherboard without the launch prices by then?