Captain_Yuri said:
Yea it will be interesting for sure. Personally I am waiting for Raptor Lake vs Zen 4 but realistically, I will probably upgrade my CPU more so around the RTX 5000/6000 series than anytime soon. The annoying thing is Zen 4 is supposed to be DDR5 and PCI-E 4.0 while Intel is going full DDR5 and PCI-E 5.0. As a platform, I'd like to have both instead of just one but performance of the CPUs will matter most at the end of the day. |
PCI-E 5.0 is probably going to be super important, mostly because of SSD's...
But the other issue is how some GPU's (I.E. Radeon 6600XT) which only has an 8x interface... And because of such has a corresponding hit to performance on PCI-E 3.0 and 2.0 systems... AMD has set a precedent now and I wouldn't be surprised if we see GPU's with a 2x or 4x interface in the low-end to cut costs. - PCI-E 5.0 would be beneficial for those parts as PCI-E 5.0 8x is equivalent to PCI-E 4.0 16x and so on.
DDR5 I am neither here nor there about... For Notebooks and Desktops that use integrated graphics, it's a massive boon as they are super bandwidth starved. (Where is that cache AMD!?).
Otherwise like all the other jumps in DRAM technology... I.E.
EDORAM > SDRAM
SDRAM > DDR
DDR > DDR2
DDR2 > DDR3
DDR3 > DDR4
The performance gains for regular desktops without integrated graphics was pretty marginal until a few years down the line when improvements to memory controllers and DRAM has taken place.
Hopefully socket AM5 has support for DDR4 and DDR5 so I can bring forwards my 64GB of Ram.
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