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How about power consumption? Or PCIe Gen 4 support? I wouldn't say Intel has anything worth looking into if you want 32 or 64 cores on the desktop.
by Jonnax 6y ago
How about power consumption?
Or PCIe Gen 4 support?
I wouldn't say Intel has anything worth looking into if you want 32 or 64 cores on the desktop.
- modzu 6y agowell, the Intel chips actually exist
- tomnipotent 6y agoGamers Nexus found negligible impact from PCIe 4, using RTX 3080 and 4K games to saturate bandwidth so could be a different story from other types of workloads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DKVVtirNM8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DKVVtirNM8
- tw04 6y agoI generally don't buy a new PC every year and there's something to be said about future proofing. PCIe 4 may be negligible today, I doubt that will be the case in 2 years when we've been through at least one full graphics card lifecycle and maybe 2, depending on how heated the competition becomes. Even if I were to buy a new CPU, I don't want to buy a new motherboard too just to have access to 4.0 slots.
- phkahler 6y agoI think the integrated graphics in AMD APUs are way beyond adequate for a large number of people. Unless you're running games from the last few years you don't even need a graphics card, never mind a dedicated PCIe slot. 3.0 should provide good performance on NVME drives and WiFi.
- extrememota 6y agoHowever, if you do any kind of GPU computation PCIe4 is the thing to have. Same goes for RTX 3080 etc.
- sdflhasjd 6y agoAs I understand, that is to be expected because PCIe GPUs get 16 lanes, which is more than enough. There's more to PCIe than just graphics cards. SSDs, Thunderbolt, 10G Ethernet, USB 3.1-2 are some bandwidth demanding applications that could benefit PCIe NVME drives only get 4 lanes through the m.2 port, and drives run close to the bandwidth limits on 3.0, I think I've seen benchmarks showing 30% improvements on 4.0 compared to 3.0 I'd also be interested in what difference there is running a PCIe 4.0 graphics card with only 8 lanes on 4.0 vs 3.0
- leetcrew 6y ago> I'd also be interested in what difference there is running a PCIe 4.0 graphics card with only 8 lanes on 4.0 vs 3.0 it's measurable, but not very significant. take a look at these charts: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-pci-express-scaling/27.html https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-p... (pcie 2.0 x16 is equivalent to or slightly worse than pcie 3.0 x8)