Depending on what you do, you may be impressed with zen 3 u cpus.
I was in the same boat, with an old 8-core Xeon something from like 2013 (it takes DDR3 RAM, and was one of the first to support PCIE 3). It was so fast, it ran circles around my current work computers (basic enterprise i5 HP). Then I insisted on a zen 3 laptop at the end of last year, and for rust compiles, it's almost twice as fast as the Xeon. It only has a 5650U (6 cores + HT), and a teeny-tiny heat sink. It does get somewhat noisy under load, but it's dead silent most of the time, including in Teams video chats!
Good to know-- I'll consider AMD hardware the next time around. I have them in my primary home/gaming laptop, not a low power version though, and greatly prefer it to the 7th gen i7 I had previously. Both were about the same on single core (doesn't seem like there's been a lot of movement on that in recent years?) But the AMD is much better on anything multi core and seems to punch above it's weight class on GPU.
I was in the same boat, with an old 8-core Xeon something from like 2013 (it takes DDR3 RAM, and was one of the first to support PCIE 3). It was so fast, it ran circles around my current work computers (basic enterprise i5 HP). Then I insisted on a zen 3 laptop at the end of last year, and for rust compiles, it's almost twice as fast as the Xeon. It only has a 5650U (6 cores + HT), and a teeny-tiny heat sink. It does get somewhat noisy under load, but it's dead silent most of the time, including in Teams video chats!