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The company has decided not to extend these updates to its Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 series processors or its Threadripper 1000 and 2000 models.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To be fair it's now 3 gens old but I do feel the sentiment

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

AMD should patch whatever is still in widespread use, including the 3xxx series. It's not that old.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 3 months ago

This is not a bug that affects consumers. plenty of hardware has firmware vulnerabilities like this, including ssds, the groups who care about this are the ones who have security as a top priority.

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are the newer ones any better? I’m not replacing my CPU, mobo, and ram for like a 25% improvement

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Even the low end cpus in the new 9000 series put my 5950X to shame

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x/3

Many pages of benchmarks here, keen to see what the 9950x can do