AMD Ryzen 16 Core “Whitehaven” Enthusiast CPUs Leaked

Hmm, assuming broadwell-e IPC and same speeds Xenon counterparts run where does speculation about lower performance comes form? There is a demo where Naples is crushing E5-2699 V4

> Will be interesting to compare them to Intel at their slightly lower performance but much lesser cost.

I've read HPC papers which demonstrate that even Opterons beat Xeons due to their higher throughput. The "lower performance" bit should be taken with a grain of salt.

> I always thought I was an enthusiast, but I've got no need for 16 cores.

That just means you're not enthusiastic enough. :P

Some people are stamp enthusiasts, pokemon enthusiasts, tea enthusiasts...why not CPU cores enthusiasts? It just means you want to collect more of something, right?

I remember in the 80's and 90's how no computer was fast enough.

Now, unless I go totally silly and decide to emulate a small datacenter on my laptop, I can't really say I feel constrained by my pathologically frugal Celeron

> Is enthusiast the right word? I always thought I was an enthusiast, but I've got no need for 16 cores.

Enthusiasts also don't need enthusiast-targeted gear, just like people who are into tuning don't need their fancy car gear.