I finally got the CPU to build my new system, after gathering parts since last summer (bought some parts well in advance because of price hikes and shortages related to the human malware), and finally getting ahold of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU.
Compiling all 10 firmware used to take me two hours. Now, it takes... 40 minutes
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And I am "only" allocating 20 threads out of 24 to that development VM (so my host can remain very responsive for other stuff while compiling is underway).
The RT-AC68U firmware on its own used to take 19-20 minutes. Now, it takes 15 minutes.
This will save me a LOT of time.
I did mention the CPU in the post (Ryzen 9 5900X). The rest such as the GPU is fairly irrelevant to firmware building performance.you shouldn't make a thread about a new beast if you're not telling the specs lulz
It means that when I launch a test build, I have to wait for it to complete before I can test the result, and possibly have to make further changes and recompile again. That makes development quite slow and painful at times, especially on the newer AX models.so why bother do the work on several different machines
that ryzen 9 -5900x is a beast... it makes things blur...<snip> Compiling all 10 firmware used to take me two hours. Now, it takes... 40 minutes... <snip>
Why not M1?Why not 5950X?
Because it doesn't have 12 coresWhy not M1?
yeah and why would you get a crippled system?Because it doesn't have 12 cores
Before everyone starts jumping on the M1 bandwagon
Ex-Intel Engineer Slams Misguided And Flawed Apple M1 Benchmarking Practices
Apple is garnering praise for its custom M1 SoC, but according to a former Intel engineer, its IPC performance may not be as good as some people think.hothardware.com
Why not 5950X?
I don't want to change the course of the discussion from "the beast" to an apples to intels comparison, but this quote from the article you've linked speaks for itselfBecause it doesn't have 12 cores
Before everyone starts jumping on the M1 bandwagon
Ex-Intel Engineer Slams Misguided And Flawed Apple M1 Benchmarking Practices
Apple is garnering praise for its custom M1 SoC, but according to a former Intel engineer, its IPC performance may not be as good as some people think.hothardware.com
To be clear, none of this means that M1 systems are being mis-represented in their actual performance capabilities. As Piednoël notes,
I have a 3900X and the benchmarks for video encoding with the 5900X have me ready to upgrade since I don't have to swap RAM or motherboard. It's 25% faster for certain ecncodings even though it's the "same" processor. When you spend 80 hours encoding just one television series for your Plex box you *really* like the idea of trimming that down to 60 hours.Wow, that's a huge improvement. Amazing what AMD pulled off with the Zen 3 cores. I'm still on Zen 2 and will hold out for Zen 4 on DDR5, PCIe5.0 and Nvme 2.0.
Agreed I don't want to go off topic from the beast so this will be my only post on that. I've read that line from the article. My point is we will need to see way more testing from independent 3rd parties and more than synthetic benchmarks.I don't want to change the course of the discussion from "the beast" to an apples to intels comparison, but this quote from the article you've linked speaks for itself
Wouldn't be the first time Apple made exaggerated claims about the performance of its products. I think it had to retract those unfounded claims back in the PowerPC days.I don't want to change the course of the discussion from "the beast" to an apples to intels comparison, but this quote from the article you've linked speaks for itself
It's 25% faster for certain ecncodings even though it's the "same" processor.
What are you using for Cooling on the CPU stock? AIO?
Hopefully the upcoming AM5 socket will have as long a life as AM4 did.I have a 3900X and the benchmarks for video encoding with the 5900X have me ready to upgrade since I don't have to swap RAM or motherboard. It's 25% faster for certain ecncodings even though it's the "same" processor. When you spend 80 hours encoding just one television series for your Plex box you *really* like the idea of trimming that down to 60 hours.
Hopefully the upcoming AM5 socket will have as long a life as AM4 did.
CONGRATS I'M thinking of getting one of those time to upgrade my 8 core slow pokesI finally got the CPU to build my new system, after gathering parts since last summer (bought some parts well in advance because of price hikes and shortages related to the human malware), and finally getting ahold of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU.
Compiling all 10 firmware used to take me two hours. Now, it takes... 40 minutes
View attachment 29815
And I am "only" allocating 20 threads out of 24 to that development VM (so my host can remain very responsive for other stuff while compiling is underway).
The RT-AC68U firmware on its own used to take 19-20 minutes. Now, it takes 15 minutes.
This will save me a LOT of time.
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