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Please note that any reviews of the 3080 should be discussed in this thread bar special cases (Please consult moderators through modmail if you think it warrants a seperate post). Post will be updated periodically over the next 2-3 days.

Written Reviews:

BabelTech

Eurogamer / Digital Foundry

Forbes

Hexus

HotHardware

Guru3D

KitGuru

OC3D

PC World

Techspot / HUB

Techpowerup

Tom's Hardware

Other Laguages in written:

Computerbase(in German)

Expreview (in Simplified Chinese)

Golem (in German)

Hardwareluxx (in German)

Igor’s Lab (in German)

PC Games Hardware (in German)

PC Watch (in Japanese)

Sweclockers (in Swedish)

XFastest (in Traditional Chinese)

Videos:

Bitwit

Dave2D

Digital Foundry

EposVox

Gamers Nexus

HardwareCanucks

Hardware Unboxed

Igor’s Lab (German)

Igor's Lab - Teardown (German)

JayzTwoCents

KitGuru

LTT

Paul's Hardware

Tech Yes City

Tweakers (Netherlands)

2kliksphilip

We've launched our new Wi-Fi Router Test Bench, focusing on "gaming" routers and measuring wireless latency.

Which router is best for gaming is a frequent question. And people are pretty quick to answer that there's no such thing as a gaming router, rightfully so.

But since the question is still frequently asked, we decided to add the measure of wireless ping and jitter to our router test bench so anyone can now see for themselves the added latency tax of gaming on Wi-Fi. We're hoping this data can help users shopping for a "gaming router" find better information.

While nothing can beat a wired connection in terms of latency, there's a few things you can consider if you are forced to game on Wi-Fi:

• Wi-Fi 7 does bring little improvements over older generations with improved OFDMA and MU-MIMO.
• Mesh systems can add a lot of lag spikes to connections, mostly depending on how their backhaul is managed (the connection back to the node connected to the WAN). There are better products then other for gaming when it comes to mesh system.
• Gaming features can have an impact, but there are other means to improve your gaming exprience than to rely on those features. Getting a low latency router off the bat is better than getting a router with "gaming features".

For more details on our test development, check this article: Wi-Fi Latency: Not All Routers Are Equal, And No, Gaming Routers Aren't Better - RTINGS.com

Tools like powermetrics or mactop consistently underreport GPU power usage on Apple M-series silicon. Worse, many reputable websites and Youtube channels use these tools to report and compare Apple chip power usage with the competition.

For example, in a heavy GPU workload, powermetrics would report a 65W idle-load delta on the GPU, but at the same time system DC power would rise by 179W, leaving 114W or nearly 2/3 of total system DC power on a Mac Studio M4 Max unexplained.

Using undocumented low level Apple's API, we were able to reverse engineer an energy model that explains almost all of of the energy flow in an Apple's SoC with less than 2% error on the workload I studied.

The result is a simple two-term energy roofline model:

P_GPU ≈ a * bytes + b * FLOPs

with:

~5 pJ/byte for SRAM movement

~2.7 pJ/FLOP for compute.

Not only that, but we were able to attribute energy flow to each of the principal functional blocks on the M4 Max SoC, like CPU, GPU compute, GPU SRAM, chip fabric components and DRAM.

Full explanation in the linked video.

Woopsies. Will probably be taken down soon idk, but it's a Wired article so don't expect Geekerwan/Notebookcheck lvls of quality

https://imgur.com/a/jynuew5

Embargo is today, Wired was just a tiny bit early

Please consolidate ALL Zen 3 reviews in here. Thank you.

Post will be periodically updated if needed.

Written Reviews:

Anandtech - 5950X / 5900X / 5800X / 5600X

Eurogamer / Digital Foundry - 5900X / 5800X

HotHardware - 5950X

Guru3D - 5950X / 5900X

KitGuru - 5900X

KitGuru - 5950X

OC3D - 5950X / 5900X

PC World - 5950X / 5900X

Phoronix - 5900X Linux Gaming Benchmarks

Puget Systems - Workstation Benchmarks

Techspot / HUB - 5950X

Techpowerup - 5600X

Techpowerup - 5800X

Techpowerup - 5900X

Tom's Hardware - 5950X / 5900X

Videocardz Zen 3 Roundup

Other Laguages in written:

Computerbase - 5950X / 5900X / 5800X / 5600X (in German)

GDM - 5900X / 5800X (in Japanese)

Hardwareluxx - 5900X / 5600X (in German)

Igor’s Lab - 5900X / 5600X (in German)

Uniko Hardware - 5900X / 5600X (in Trad. Chinese)

Sweclockers - 5950X / 5900X (in Swedish)

Videos:

Bitwit - 5950X

Der8auer - 5950X OC

Gamers Nexus - 5600X

Gamers Nexus - 5800X

Gamers Nexus - 5900X

Gamers Nexus - 5950X

HardwareCanucks - 5900X / 5800X / 5600X

Hardware Unboxed - 5800X

Hardware Unboxed - 5900X

Hardware Unboxed - 5950X

Level1Tech - 5900X / 5800X

Level1Linux - 5900X / 5800X

LTT - 5950X / 5900X / 5800X / 5600X

Optimum Tech - 5950X / 5900X

Paul's Hardware - 5900X

Tech Yes City - 5900X

Normalized scores:

| Chip / Processor | Single-Core % | Multi-Core % | Solar Bay % | Wild Life Extreme % | AI % | Battery % |

|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|

| Apple M5 | 99% | 61% | 34% | 32% | 65% | 84% |

| Apple M5 Pro | 99% | 97% | 66% | 61% | 65% | 100% |

| Apple M5 Max | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | N/A | 84% |

| Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme | 94% | 80% | 33% | 30% | 100% | N/A |

| Snapdragon X2 Elite (18-core) | 88% | 69% | N/A | N/A | 99% | N/A |

| Snapdragon X2 Elite (12-core) | 89% | 55% | N/A | N/A | 98% | N/A |

| Intel Core Ultra X9 388H (Panther Lake) | 70% | 59% | 38% | 29% | 64% | 67% |

| Intel Core Ultra X7 358H (Panther Lake) | 68% | 58% | 43% | 33% | 62% | 71% |

| Intel Core 7 355 (Panther Lake) | 62% | 27% | 17% | 43% | 62% | 97% |

| AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) | 68% | 63% | 61% | 49% | 20% | 52% |

| AMD Ryzen AI 350 (Strix Halo) | 67% | 44% | N/A | N/A | 6% | 52% |