It's not a gaming chip, it's a desktop CPU chip.

Imagine thinking that all people use PCs for is games...

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.

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Mashimo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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etiennebausson 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	Mashimo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Might be because of the site's target audience? Yes, but also because of official AMD marketing: https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/70... > with elite gaming performance from a powerful 8‑core AMD gaming processor I would also call it a gaming CPU, because it is what it excels at. ¯\(ツ)/¯