AMD in its Computex 2026 presentation, celebrated 10 years of the Socket AM4 platform that kickstarted the company's long march to competitiveness with Intel in the desktop PC processor market, and its eventual domination. Socket AM4 supports the original "Zen" and "Zen+," across the Ryzen 1000 and ...
It’ll still be very fast?
Time isn’t going to make it any worse. Games will still love X3D cache. Games won’t be hamstrung by DDR4, just like they aren’t now. But I think I understand you better: you don’t want to buy anything, and hold out for AM6.
…But that’s a loong wait.
If it’s in the budget, you shouldn’t skip out on an AM4 refresh you can enjoy in the intervening years. It’s not going to be obsolete 3-4 years from now, but its affordable enough that upgrading to AM6 from it would still make sense.
It will become outdated. This is just the natural progression of technology that’s been happening for the last 40 years. I don’t see it suddenly ending.
I guarantee you, a 5800X3D will last longer than a 7600X. Or a 9600. They will age the same, and the 5800X3D will perform better than the 7600, or ~roughly match the 9600, the whole time.
And there’s no feature or specification AM5 CPUs have over AM4 that games will need in 4 years.
Again, this might be different if we were talking some specific software outside of games, but that’s how games are.
You’re comparing it to currently available options and I am comparing it to future options.