AMD says these are the same... We DISAGREE.

Remove your personal information from the web at and use code LTT for 20% off. NexiGo is hosting product giveaways every month! Enter for your chance to win here: (Contest is open to anyone 13 in the United States) Do you really know if your CPU is performing the same as the ones we review? We don’t know. But we know that if we want to increase our testing capacity, we need to PARALLELIZE. But that means we need nearly identical test benches. And trying to make that happen sent us down a far deeper rabbit hole than we could have anticipated. Testing Process Doc and Forum Post: Buy an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU: (Canada: ) (Micro Center: ) Buy a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4909 FE Graphics Card: Buy a GIGABYTE X670E AORUS XTREME Motherboard: Buy Trident Z5 NEO 6000MT/s CL30 2x16GB DDR5 RAM: Buy a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD: Buy a Noctua NH-D15 CPU Cooler: Buy a MSI MEG Ai1300P PSU: Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: ► EQUIPMENT WE USE TO FILM LTT: ► OUR WAN PODCAST GEAR: FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: TikTok: @linustech Twitch: MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: iTunes Download Link: Artist Link: Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: Listen on Spotify: Artist Link: Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 2:25 Why Same Model ISN’T Same Performance 5:32 Sources of Variance 8:21 Gaming Results 10:43 CS:GO is Wonky 11:41 Gaming Results Cont. 12:39 Productivity Results 13:59 Our Selections 15:15 Testing Mobos and RAM 17:16 Final Discussion 21:26 Outro