But it wins in every case where performance truly matters: multi-threaded calculations, archiving, encoding. You know, the things that actually do take up time.
Do you really care if your webpage renders for half a second longer?
Do you really care if your webpage renders for half a second longer?
You're also missing that even on chrome the js and layout engines run different threads. Same with audio and video rendering. Same with downloads. The average page is probably running things on 10-20 random threads. And the average user has multiple tabs open.
Multicore CPU is so common these days that any performance critical code that can be parallelized, is. This includes GZIP and HTTP which are used heavily by web browsers. The network stacks underneath those in the OS are also multi core capable.
Single thread performance is not all that important anymore. It's better to have 2x the number of fast cores than half the number of slightly faster cores in almost every situation these days.
Not even. Video acceleration, browser acceleration, flash acceleration, and much more, are becoming increasingly GPU-oriented.
If I was after encoding performance, I wouldn't buy a Ryzen. If I was after rendering performance, I wouldn't buy a Ryzen. Throw an mid-range nVidia on there for OpenCL, and the only CPU that makes sense for that price range is the 7700K.
I expect if AMD went back through again, they could improve them even more.
(In the handbrake case, most likely it's half-speed AVX2 that is hurting them)
But why? http://www.anandtech.com/show/11170/the-amd-zen-and-ryzen-7-...
The benchmarks show Ryzen being the obvious choice other than cinebench single threaded.
Only if you are using a shitty software renderer or are completely stupid would you do rendering on the CPU.
The Ryzen performs nicely on the encoding tests, though that will be performed by the GPU soon. It already can be (NVENC and AMD VCE), but the quality isn't quite as good as everyone's favorite h.264 encoder, x264.
If you're after pure performance, then you simply go with the best for your use case, whether it is Ryzen or not.
If you're on a tight budget, however, things get interesting.
hence, "things get interesting"