if you want a htpc, you want the grunt to decode content that hasn't been hardware accelerated yet. These aren't htpc cpu's.

rl66:

In 2019 AMD always talk faster than factory 🙂 It's Zen core + Vega, it is not so dated.

I meant more the fact that it's a 2c/4t CPU, which isn't really something you expect to find in 2019. Besides, some would argue Vega is dated, despite it being released relatively recently.

Astyanax:

if you want a htpc, you want the grunt to decode content that hasn't been hardware accelerated yet.

It is exactely what it does since a month... (in my HTPC definition i have "silence" and "low power" too, and in this point it is excelent).

schmidtbag:

I meant more the fact that it's a 2c/4t CPU, which isn't really something you expect to find in 2019. Besides, some would argue Vega is dated, despite it being released relatively recently.

As always it depend on what to do with core, having a 10 core Xeon in my under TV box would be useless, 2c/4t isn't for gaming or heavy work too, but this one do better than some equivalent in Intel, having that in mind it is a good CPU. BTW: i agree with Vega, i havent buy it for that, it's just an extra-bonus

Great review. I didn't expect those great results.

schmidtbag:

I meant more the fact that it's a 2c/4t CPU, which isn't really something you expect to find in 2019. Besides, some would argue Vega is dated, despite it being released relatively recently.

As much as i wish they weren't, i'm not surprised by it anymore. I mean, there's still i7's that are dual-core, such as the Core i7-8500Y, which i'll grant you, they state it's a "5w" processor.......but, no where in 2018 should an i7 be a dual-core, that's just....wow Sure, you could say that it's the "i7 of the 5w processors", but that's just confusing in my opinion no matter which way it is. The amount of people who i have seen choose an i7 dual-core over an i5 quad-core, even when being told the specific i7 they are looking at is much slower then the i5 they are looking at....is messed up lol

rl66:

It is exactely what it does since a month... (in my HTPC definition i have "silence" and "low power" too, and in this point it is excelent). As always it depend on what to do with core, having a 10 core Xeon in my under TV box would be useless, 2c/4t isn't for gaming or heavy work too, but this one do better than some equivalent in Intel, having that in mind it is a good CPU. BTW: i agree with Vega, i havent buy it for that, it's just an extra-bonus

This cpu will not run AV1 well at all

I agree but on other hand it's from Zen family, and Ryzen are not so good in AV1 either. but once you pair it with real GPU it's OK.

A up. I got board and so up dated the Bios to my MSI B450 pro Athlon 200GE from 7b84 version 24 to V 28 just in case I wanted to slap in a new 3600 CPU some time in the future.. Well Piddling about ( Values have to be entered manually a drop down is not available ) I am now at Ram T1 14,14,14,14 2666Mhz stable CPU at 3.5 Ghz and PCI-E 4. Lol. Its only my media centre so all overclocking makes no difference to performance really. But hey I can and so I did. OOPs wrong Athlon review thread. Doh! 🙂