| 16 May 2026 |
 magic_rb | Gah, im tempted to go for the 5950x then, :/ | 11:29:31 |
 K900 | Which is huge for games | 11:29:41 |
| K900 | But kinda eh in productivity loads | 11:29:50 |
 marienz | I don't have the performance data for these paged in but I think that one hit TDP limitations if you use all cores, so it's not actually twice as fast in productivity workloads despite having twice the cores, but it's certainly faster (if your workload can use the cores) | 11:31:54 |
| marienz | err, that one being the 5950x | 11:32:08 |
| magic_rb | 
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| magic_rb | Timed compilation isnt the best metric, but its something | 11:34:22 |
| magic_rb | Two minutes faster on the 5950x | 11:34:56 |
| magic_rb | But then again, i wonder if nix eval doesnt benefit from the larger l3 cache, same with haskell compilation | 11:35:59 |
| marienz | I wouldn't count on it (unless you can find benchmarks that say otherwise) | 11:36:36 |
| 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 |
