Mar 1 2023, 11:01 AM
QUOTE(terradrive @ Mar 1 2023, 09:56 AM)
the price difference betwwen 7800x3d and 13900kf is around rm200-300... it doesn't save that much. 13900kf is well more better value for less platform issue headaches and way bigger productivity performance. Plus if we sacrificed productivity for cheaper 7800x3d, we could save on intel by going for 13700kf too.
Yes raptor lake is a dead platform, but you could also pair cheaper 13700kf with cheaper b760 boards like the msi b760 mortar wifi (both around rm2700+). When new platform comes out, can sell off the raptor lake cpu and motherboard in one go. Meanwhile even the cheap but good b650 boards are like rm1200 (so 7800x3d+b650 = rm3300+).
The 13700kf just slower abit in gaming, but it is nearly 50% faster than 5800x3d in productivity. And like what happens to the 5800x3d on CPU multicore heavy games, once more PS5 cross platform titles comes out to PC, games in the future might be way more CPU multicore heavier in the future and favour more cpu grunt.
Lastly we haven't seen how the future is for the CPU battle yet, who knows arrow lake will be the bomb, does platform longevity matters that time when the competitor is better (if that happens).
Imho platform longevity is really over hyped unless you upgrade constantly and jump to each new family of CPU. Most users would buy and hardly upgrade either CPU or mobo that often, moreso when hardware cost is expensive in Asia/Malaysia, so for the majority its better to just change the whole thing when upgrading in 4-5 years anyhow. Yes raptor lake is a dead platform, but you could also pair cheaper 13700kf with cheaper b760 boards like the msi b760 mortar wifi (both around rm2700+). When new platform comes out, can sell off the raptor lake cpu and motherboard in one go. Meanwhile even the cheap but good b650 boards are like rm1200 (so 7800x3d+b650 = rm3300+).
The 13700kf just slower abit in gaming, but it is nearly 50% faster than 5800x3d in productivity. And like what happens to the 5800x3d on CPU multicore heavy games, once more PS5 cross platform titles comes out to PC, games in the future might be way more CPU multicore heavier in the future and favour more cpu grunt.
Lastly we haven't seen how the future is for the CPU battle yet, who knows arrow lake will be the bomb, does platform longevity matters that time when the competitor is better (if that happens).
Also, sticking to a platform means it would be outdated as others keep on improving. 1st gen Ryzen X370 maxed out RAM at 3200 OCed so it could not make use of faster RAMs thats available today, its also limited to PCIE Gen3 when GPUs these days are at Gen4 so it wont able to fully utilise like a 4090, the same limitations that it oso cannot make use the speed of Gen4 NVME SSD, nor does most have Type C USB3.2.
With such CPU limitations and mobo limitations, platform longevity doesnt make much sense.
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