| ▲ | 2001zhaozhao 7 hours ago | |
I don't really see a huge reason to buy this other than it being a top-tier halo product. For gaming, AMD already pins the game threads to the CCD with the extra cache pretty well. For multi-threaded workloads the gain from having cache on both CCDs is quite small. | ||
| ▲ | adrian_b 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |
The gain is very workload dependent, so there are no generally-applicable rules. There are many applications which need synchronization between threads, so the speed of the slowest thread has a disproportionate influence on the performance. In such applications, on X3D2 the slowest thread has a 3 times bigger cache on an X3D2 vs. X3D. That can make a lot of difference. So there will be applications with no difference in performance, but also applications with a very large difference in performance, equal to the best performance differences shown by X3D vs. plain 9950X. | ||