| 16 May 2026 |
 K900 | Practically doesn't do much really | 11:36:58 |
| K900 | The hot set is too big | 11:37:01 |
 marienz | (from what I've seen memory-heavy workloads that don't fit... that) | 11:37:16 |
| K900 | (source: I have a 7950X3D) | 11:37:17 |
 magic_rb | Too many decisions, what would you guys do? | 11:39:13 |
| marienz | it depends on what your productivity workloads actually are, and I think also on whether you'd see yourself playing games on a >60Hz monitor | 11:40:08 |
| magic_rb | Probably not | 11:40:18 |
| magic_rb | 60fps is plenty, i dont play anything competitive, never did | 11:40:31 |
| marienz | something like nix eval doesn't benefit from the extra cores, and I think in most games you don't need the extra cache to hit 60fps | 11:40:51 |
| magic_rb | My poison is cyberpunk, E33, bg3, vermintide 2, darktide, kcd1, minecraft :P | 11:41:19 |
| magic_rb | And my work is most Nix, some haskell and rust | 11:41:28 |
| marienz | rust can benefit from more cores, I'm not familiar with haskell | 11:42:04 |
| magic_rb | GHC is single threaded, but ofc you can run multiple ones | 11:42:22 |
| marienz | (...but rust only up to a point, too) | 11:42:26 |
| magic_rb | Yeah... | 11:42:55 |
| marienz | I'd hunt around a bit for benchmarks on both cpus (or close-ish cpus) for games you actually play to make sure, but I suspect you'd benefit from the additional cores more than you'd benefit from the extra cache | 11:44:03 |
| marienz | err, all three cpus (ideally also on an older cpu to confirm the upgrade's worth it) | 11:44:42 |
| magic_rb | Older is 2600x | 11:45:16 |
| magic_rb | Definitely worth it | 11:45:19 |
| marienz | (...and a similar tradeoff is why I have that 5800x: my budget didn't stretch to a 5900x / 5950x at the time, the x3d options would be more of a side-grade because they'd make software compilation slower, and RAM prices skyrocketed before I pulled the trigger on an AM5 rebuild) | 11:46:57 |
| marienz | err, 5900x is what I have, not 5800x (model numbers, how do they work) | 11:47:26 |
| marienz | I know it has 12 cores, not the marketing number :) | 11:47:44 |
| magic_rb | The 3d is consistently faster, 15 fps in cyberpunk for example | 11:52:43 |
| magic_rb | But then since i play on 60fps anyway, unless i cant hit 45 fps in the first place, that doesnt matter much | 11:53:11 |
| K900 | Well yeah that's the L# | 11:53:13 |
| magic_rb | Id assume the lower the fps, the less the added cache matter right | 11:53:23 |
| K900 | * Well yeah that's the L3 | 11:53:25 |
| K900 | Somewhat yeah | 11:53:49 |
| K900 | But also like | 11:53:50 |
| K900 | You probably don't want to optimize for 60fps | 11:53:51 |
