Next CPU challenge: lower the power consumption by a lot.

I’m very happy to see the back and forth between cpu manufacturers

It's not hard at all, I do not want to spend 100% more on cooling devices for the miniature sun that is the 13900 and upgrade the power supply too....tell me again how it is cheaper? Current 10900K owner.

If you buy a i9 13900k prepare yourself for oblivion, prepare your wallet for everything that comes with it. Because these cpus are for overclocking.

Remember when Intel was the 500lb gorilla in the room? They could charge whatever the hell they wanted, now they are becoming the value proposition

This is so healthy for the market seeing two companies stepping up their games. We are the winners guys.

You should talk about the extra $50 a month on your electric bill you will spend running a system with a 13900k and 4090 6 hours a day gaming LOL

AMD is game-proof and almost as good as Intel. Plus, you have a future for your platform.

Most people doesn’t use Cinebench 24x7. CPU remains idle most od the time and used for light browsing and gaming. Intel’s idle power consumption is less than 10W due to E cores while AMD consumes more than 40W when idle. So you need to spend 4x in energy bill if you go with AMD.

Only thing at this point is knowing that you'll have a new socket next year as an Intel user. While AM5 has a few years of cheap upgrades remaining.

Just picked up an AMD 7950 over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. The prices were brought down to even with Intel BUT microcenter had a deal where they gave me 2x16 DDR5-6000 Ram for free with my processer purchase plus another $20 off when I bought the motherboard at the same time. Insane deals!

Good to see that intel is finally coming back around to offer competitive products @ enticing price points.

ah, lets explain it, then.

I am likely not going to go Intel; but seeing this makes me happy. Seeing Intel is actually seeing AMD as a threat and making strong improvements as well as being cheaper, really ups the game of CPU companion, which drive price to performance closer. (Cost cheaper but improves are better) so everyone wins.

Jay, I really wish you would benchmark these CPUs in some sort of engineering software. A quick CFD run or an FEA solver on a semi complex geometry would be absolutely amazing!

In my mind there is huge value in that this is the first gen am5 cpus and that you could reuse both MB and RAM for future upgrades. While on Intel it seems that we are getting a new socket with next gen (14th). That's worth alot, for me atleast :)

Excited to see how gaming performance changes for AMD with the X3D models. The 5800X3D was pretty darn nifty.

I love the music you chose when showing benchmark scores. there was a short time where you weren't using it and Im glad its back

I purchased the Ryzen 9 7900X on the day it released, and coming from an i7 8700, I'm blown away. I'm in love with this build. I purchased it partially because I love an underdog story and I love what AMD's doing right now, partially because I just needed a big upgrade, and also because it's not Intel lmao however, seeing Intel come back like this is nothing but exciting, because this heavy of competition is only going to be good for the consumers. Super competitive prices while trying to beat the other team's performance? Yes please! Now we just have to hope the GPU market livens up soon!

Compared to last generation, regardless of which on wins, they're both giving insane numbers.