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Takes guts to stick with that core count and at least you get to enjoy the full 70MB of cache. Good thing Blender and Cinebench all fits inside that, not sure you can ever say the same for productivity workloads.

I guess AM4 also means no real improvements on the PCIe lane count: Would love to see real and IF switches to give a bit of flexibility and what they plan for a new Threadripper.

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> I guess AM4 also means no real improvements on the PCIe lane count

The new Ryzen 3000 CPUs support PCIe Gen4.. so while the number of lanes will remain the same, their bandwidth could be doubled. Just announced Navi GPUs also support Gen4.

I am quite surprised that they're launching a consumer CPU with 70MB of cache! When most CPUs have ~8MB, I don't think there's ever been such a huge CPU cache jump in history.

Those duel CCXs means the 16 core Ryzen could be ready for release (that's what I have my eye on!). It's funny, going from 12 to 16 cores is basically the i7 6700k in my desktop.

Plus, it's great that Intel is being aggressive by releasing the 9900KS (which is a pretty good GPU for gamers). It's been a while since we've seen any real competition between AMD & Intel.

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