Thank you AMD for having performed the most essential step in making these launches happen.
It's nice to see cores and clocks increase over time, but in my real world day to day usage, I don't think I'd feel much difference from my CPU from two years ago.
I fully agree I actually was stunned to see that my by now very old 6700k actually does do very well in games, the issue is that the motherboards lack the advanced toys I like to use.
Nevertheless I will soon buy as many before me buy an AMD based system as soon as the new motherboards with usb 4 get launched.
And hopefully this will not be another fail launch like the current ones, there are hardly any devices which really make use of the usb3.2 gen 1000 speed ( yes I typed it on purpose wrong).
The reason is that the shops are full with fake high speed products, they actually are either usb 1.0,2.0 or 3.0 devices being renamed to the fail name change of the replacing products.
They make use of that fail all the time, friends come to me for testing their brand new super speed usb stick because it seemed so slow.... well indeed if you have bought a usb 1.0 speed which is branded in large red letters a USB 3.2 super speed device.
People expect it to run at minimal 3.0 speeds but after I tested it and tell them they got screwed by the shop because they over payed for such a slow device which actually should not be sold anymore. Often the clue that its probably not any good is often a real weird brand, with loads of flashy ads and alot of pictures show a rocket or super car. But I found big brands actually do the same simply because they are now doing nothing wrong because the fail usb standard makes it easy to buy crap for premium prices.
The sad part of it all is that it looks like that group of people did it on purpose because I have not found any device besides very expensive TB 2 or 3 devices that actually make use of the near 20 Gbit speed ( again intensional leave the never used 40 away).
There are no devices coming remotely near that max speeds for real no usb3.x or Tb 3.
The devices I tested are maxed out pretty rapid, that does not say these are slow, but fact is that its much slower than usual big numbers which are on the boxes.
Its kinda like buying superspeed wifi .... the same story over and over again, friends buy a wifi device expecting to see massive speed improvements because it says so on the box, so they ask me to look at their new toy and then get the bad news ... They bought another fail because the one they bought is NOT faster than the previous.
So long story short do not let you lead by all these fake numbers because you get disappointed except if you bought it to brag to friends and family.
But make sure they can not test the actual speeds because like this new series cpu, you probably never reach that 5.2 or higher clocks. I bet your only get it if you are lucky and have spend a fortune on expensive custom water cooling solutions.