2200G/3000G reporting in. Zen 1 is still plenty for me
I'm honestly surprised by the Zen 3 domination. It's saying something.
That 3+ generations of motherboards (They did stagger the launches of X and B series) are universally compatible and Zen3 have cheap options good enough for all but the very fastest GPU in existence?
5600 for $140 and 5700X for $200 have no match at that price points also...
These are AU prices, but yeah - what you said
Not even remotely close, so lets try 12th gen
Okay cool, some of these CPUs are indeed quite cheap
According to TPU, to match a 5600 that 12100 - which with board price differences i agree is actually competitive
But the key here is that a lot of people are using AMD boards they bought years and years ago - I've bought four AM4 boards, and still own 3 of those 4. All four will run a 5600, a 5800x3d or a 5950x if i wanted.
Whereas anyone who bought an intel board in that time has had to toss the whole build to upgrade - so AM4 is going to dominate for several years since $250Au can turn any AM4 board no matter how shite, into something capable of 85% of the performance of an entirely new top-tier PC that could cost thousands for mobo, CPU, RAM and cooling
(at 1080p with a 3080 or faster, any other combo and that gap shrinks even further)
Even with a 3090, why would I upgrade off AM4? Even my AX370 board would let my 5800x3D make my system a chart topper and let me use 2 gen3 NVME drives without any performance loss at all from using an older board
