"Kernel anti-cheat" and "spyware" is exactly what i mean. Thry do have millions of players. But that's like 20-30 games out of 1000s that run just fine.

> If you play AAA games with kernel anti-cheat then Wine and Proton are basically non-starters.

Kernel-level spyware, and Wine/Proton are the non-starters?

I don't think you and the person you replied to will reach an agreement.

Let's rephrase that statement. My game probably works fine on linux and if it doesn't there is an active community read to support it BUT the person, I purchased this game from said no.

Any CPU generates more heat when it does more work, e.g. when more cores are active, or when using vector instructions.

Using the AVX-512 operations is much more efficient, i.e. the same amount of work can be done by consuming less energy. For instance, if you have a program running an AVX computation on 4 cores, you could double the throughput either by using AVX-512 or by using 8 cores, but the former variant will produce less heat.

For an overclocked system, where the normal power limits of the CPU are disabled, so it can consume a power great enough to exceed the capability of the cooler, it may make sense to disable AVX-512, for fear that one could run accidentally some program that is aware of AVX-512 and which would achieve a greater speed by using it, while also exceeding the power consumption that can be handled by the existing cooler.

On the other hand, on a non-overclocked system or in an overclocked system with a very capable cooler, disabling AVX-512 is always a mistake, which can only increase the average power consumption.

I understand where you are coming from.

But as a gamer who hasn't been able to make a significant upgrade to my rig in 6 years due to memory price and redirected processor engineering funding (all of it due to AI), it really bother me.

I assume they meant that gaming is the main market segment it serves, which from my understanding is correct. The X3D chips have great performance in games, which are generally constrained by memory latency. It's, of course, still a general purpose CPU that can do many things.

It is indeed a desktop CPU chip, but the 3dV cache is real good for gaming, thus it's also marked in that region.

From the official AMD website:

> Whatever the setting or resolution, lead your team to victory with elite gaming performance from a powerful 8‑core AMD gaming processor featuring AMD 3D V‑Cache™ technology.

True, I suppose it is also useful for video editing and other uses.

The article describe it as a gaming chip, though. Might be because of the site's target audience? I don't know them.