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This is an awfully flamey article. The reason the chip is locked is because AMD is stupid? OK then.
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I need a second opinion on this, the article sounds a bit click-baity to me.

If L3 really is 4 cycles slower, how much does it _actually_ affect performance? Specially given that L3 can now be made much larger.

Charlie is again spinning a tale based on slideware, nothing to see here. And contrary to his claims, I doubt that _most_ gamers actually overclocks, especially on AMD.

Real reviews are out and it's doing ok overall (essentially at parity with 12900K (see eg. https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-beats-intel-core-i9...) but of course you can arrange the benchmarks such that either wins.

I think this is an interesting direction but not a slam dunk. Looking forward to the future iterations of this idea.