It's made for people who are on Zen 2 who has a good X570 board, good b-die DDR4s and not wanting to wait until Zen 4 releases in Q4 2022 because FOMO.

Honestly, it's a pointless release just like Coffee Lake Refresh was.

Or rocketlake

Coffee Lake Refresh has 2 extra cores, RKL added PCIE4 and AVX-512 for those niche users who wanted it.

Zen 2 XT was just Zen 2 with better bins.

It's practically still Skylake lol. There was no need for Coffee Lake and Coffee Lake refresh to even exist, they could have just gone straight to Comet Lake but Intel was LCLY at the time.

Yes Zen 2 XT was also a pointless release, even more so when it went AWOL just 2 months after launch.

Yeap if they did that then we would have raptorlake today and alderlake last year lol.. but owell, when you have a bad ceo, no matter how good your engineers are, it wont be fruitful.

If Intel wasn't too ambitious with their 10nm process with their failed experiments on cobalt etc:

Q4 2017 - Cannon Lake instead of Coffee Lake
2018 - Ice Lake desktop instead of Rocket Lake 2.5 years later
2019 - Tiger Lake
2020 - Tiger Lake shrunk to Intel 7nm
2021 - Alder Lake on Intel 7nm, not "Intel 7" that's actually their 10nm process

To what extent is the issue due to their old CEO and not their fab chiefs? I don't know.

He was mostly to blame on it due to redirecting all the funding to mobile chips, cloud computing business, autonomous vehicles, augmented reality and many many more which we know all are failed projects..... also funding his political career. So yeah.... to the point he was actually blamed officially and sacked.

Here we go again

AMD Ryzen CPUs Could Be in Threat From Raptoreum Crypto Miners
https://techdator.net/amd-ryzen-cpus-could-...-crypto-miners/

Previous CEO was a clown.

Current CEO is actually an engineer first, business man second. He was one of the key pillars that led Intel to dominance with Conroe after the joke that was Pentium D.

Intel hobbled down the stairs after Haswell actually. Remember Broadwell? Oh wait, it barely existed. They were lucky AMD was a shit show at the time, otherwise Devil's Canyon would have been Intel's downfall instead of having leeway until Skylake.

Funding black education, all black female gaming team or whatever Social justice rubbish and community services instead of focusing on what intel suppose to do lolol.

new crypto coin extremely profitable for ryzen 3000 & 5000 series, jaga-jaga shortage of ryzen chips

CPU mining apa?
my 5800 now used by 10 year olds for zoom only

My 5800 is being used to watch other remote desktops to monitor server health

got lor i won't say nanti kena tiao

tomorrow buy royce rolls to buy vegetables at local market

just tried mining with my old AMD Ryzen 3700X vs new Intel i9-11900KF

my old 3700X stock mining performance on stock fan is on par with the i9 with AIO Cooler
it's even slightly faster

and damn me! the result aren't bad after 1 day of mining with both, waaay better return than what you can get from the nicehash or XMR mining

if this catches on, expect more miner grabbing up the Ryzen 9

Yup, glad I kept my 3900x and 5900x. Mining with them to fund for Raptor Lake and Lovelace.

Raptoreum looks like another poorly-coded dead-end like Chia.

Personally I don't think AMD CPU supplies will be in jeopardy.

5900x and 5950x are still being sold at scalper prices anyway, no difference whether people buy it up or not for mining.

RTM mining is very nice on Zen 2 and 3 I must say though. ~70c no AC room with 3.5 - 4k h/s average using AVX workload.

there is no new AGESA update since last Sept?