Deciding between building a mainstream PC and a high-end desktop has historically been very clear cut: if budget is a concern, and you’re interested in gaming, then typically a user looks to the mainstream. Otherwise, if a user is looking to do more professional high-compute work, then they look at the high-end desktop. Over the course of AMD’s recent run of high-core count Ryzen processors that line has blurred. This year, that line has disappeared. Even in 2016, mainstream CPUs used to top out at four cores: today they now top out at sixteen.
Does anyone need sixteen cores? Yes.
Does everyone need sixteen cores? No.
Do I want sixteen cores? Yes.
How does it compare to a 68000 ?
Never mind that! How does it compare to a 6502? 🙂
Or if we’re going to keep it in the same family, how does it compare to an 8080?
Are the core interconnects fully switched, or is it a hypercube configuration?
30% better overall: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-9-3950X-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6800K/4057vs3607
And a beast for multicore tasks: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-9-3950X-vs-Intel-Core-i9-9900K/4057vs4028
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800