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hinch said:

GPU's being readily available.. it looks like its hitting Nvidia a bit.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvidia-stock-stumbles-after-baird-voices-concern-about-graphics-business-11649703415

Let these 2 year old cards rot on the shelf at over MSRP prices.. these things should be going for a lot less - and to actual consumers, not miners.

It is looking better for those those who want a new graphics card now or in the near future, though the next hurdle is when Lovelace/RDNA 3 cards are out.

Hopefully it keeps going down. I wouldn't mind buying some Nvidia stock before Lovelace comes out loll.

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Captain_Yuri said:

If I was Intel and I looked at some of the benchmarks, I'd be having nightmares about Zen 4. Alder Lake S with all of it's DDR5 6000, PCI-E Gen 5 and a completely new Arch getting steamrolled in some benches by a 2 year old Zen 3 with more cache is insane!

And that's not the only one either.

Crazy gains just from upping the L3 cache on a single-CCX. Do want, but not at full price. only a 8% gain at 1440P (on average from the 5600X) though on certain games like FC 5, there is an insane jump in performance. At 4K GPU bottlenecks come into play and there's no difference in more recent mid/top tier CPU's. The embargo releases soon so it'll be interesting to see results on higher tier GPU's like the 3090/6900XT, which is where next gen's mid gen cards should be at or better.

But yeah this is impressive for Zen 3. Zen 4 with a sizable jump in IPC and modest boost in clocks.. is going to be blood bath lol.

Yea with Zen 4 around the corner, I would imagine this one getting discounted reasonably quickly. And with a simple in place upgrade while being on par with Intel's greatest, it would be pretty crazy upgrade. I'll keep my 5950x however since even Lovelace will be a bottleneck at 4k but 5800X3D is insane.