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AMD Announces Socket AM5 Longevity till 2029 (www.techpowerup.com)
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago* (3 children)

what will it be in the future?

It'll still be very fast?

Time isn't going to make it any worse. Games will still love X3D cache. Games won't be hamstrung by DDR4, just like they aren't now. But I think I understand you better: you don't want to buy anything, and hold out for AM6.

...But that's a loong wait.

If it's in the budget, you shouldn't skip out on an AM4 refresh you can enjoy in the intervening years. It's not going to be obsolete 3-4 years from now, but its affordable enough that upgrading to AM6 from it would still make sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Time isn't going to make it any worse

    It will become outdated. This is just the natural progression of technology that's been happening for the last 40 years. I don't see it suddenly ending.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I guarantee you, a 5800X3D will last longer than a 7600X. Or a 9600. They will age the same, and the 5800X3D will perform better than the 7600, or ~roughly match the 9600, the whole time.

    And there's no feature or specification AM5 CPUs have over AM4 that games will need in 4 years.

    Again, this might be different if we were talking some specific software outside of games, but that's how games are.

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