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PCIe 4.0 seems to not be a worthwhile upgrade for me and especially if it’s adding £100+ to board costs.
Zen2 supporting it makes sense for EPYC of course but that doesn’t mean they had to use it across the board for Ryzen.
It seems as if for GPUs it will add nothing and for SSDs it takes us deep into the law of diminishing returns. The real bottleneck for consumers on SSDs is typically Q1 performance and PCIe 4.0 does nothing for that.
What it does add is better bandwidth between the CPU and the chipset but are there other ways they could have improved that without the massive price premium? Don’t Intel offer this with the Z3x0 boards!
Of course you can use a board with a cheaper chipset but then seemingly you lose a bit of performance.
CPUs at the higher end of expectations plus a £100+ PCIe 4.0 tax puts the high end 8C into Intel pricing at the platform level.
This has significantly impacted the release of this platform I feel.
I haven’t lost faith in the CPUs themselves but I will be less tolerant of any shortcomings given the above.
The 2nd generation chips and boards are looking better every day especially with more retailers offering discounts.
It’s a weird situation to be in!
Still looking forward to the reviews and especially for the 12C.
Zen2 supporting it makes sense for EPYC of course but that doesn’t mean they had to use it across the board for Ryzen.
It seems as if for GPUs it will add nothing and for SSDs it takes us deep into the law of diminishing returns. The real bottleneck for consumers on SSDs is typically Q1 performance and PCIe 4.0 does nothing for that.
What it does add is better bandwidth between the CPU and the chipset but are there other ways they could have improved that without the massive price premium? Don’t Intel offer this with the Z3x0 boards!
Of course you can use a board with a cheaper chipset but then seemingly you lose a bit of performance.
CPUs at the higher end of expectations plus a £100+ PCIe 4.0 tax puts the high end 8C into Intel pricing at the platform level.
This has significantly impacted the release of this platform I feel.
I haven’t lost faith in the CPUs themselves but I will be less tolerant of any shortcomings given the above.
The 2nd generation chips and boards are looking better every day especially with more retailers offering discounts.
It’s a weird situation to be in!
Still looking forward to the reviews and especially for the 12C.
