I'm still going strong with an i7-5960X (Haswell-e). Sure single threaded performance is not great compared to a brand new Ryzen or Alder lake, but it at least has 8 cores and is able to handle a beefy 30% overclock. Still runs fine with the vast majority of games and can handle my compiling needs well enough.
Biggest jump would be AVX512 support on the newer CPUs.
Still so surprised how much faster the Ryzen 5000 series was, and now the 7000 series and Intel's offerings are absolutely crazy. PCIE5 and gobs of RAM is a data nerds dream.
> Biggest jump would be AVX512 support on the newer CPUs.
Didn't this get removed from the "consumer" 12th gen Intel models?
Regarding the speed of the AMD 5000 series, I have to agree. I only touched a laptop part, and an U at that, but it was the first new CPU that impressed me. My daily driver before that was a 3rd or 4th gen Xeon, and it was faster than the i5 desktops we had a work.
