AMD’s Ryzen 5800X3D is too flawed for consumer use

Charlie is again spinning a tale based on slideware, nothing to see here. And contrary to his claims, I doubt that _most_ gamers actually overclocks, especially on AMD.

Real reviews are out and it's doing ok overall (essentially at parity with 12900K (see eg. https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-beats-intel-core-i9...) but of course you can arrange the benchmarks such that either wins.

I think this is an interesting direction but not a slam dunk. Looking forward to the future iterations of this idea.

This opinion piece is absolute garbage. Here is one review (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIRWzMnfMPY

I need a second opinion on this, the article sounds a bit click-baity to me.

If L3 really is 4 cycles slower, how much does it _actually_ affect performance? Specially given that L3 can now be made much larger.

This is an awfully flamey article. The reason the chip is locked is because AMD is stupid? OK then.