Hendrixon
Senior New
Nope, as you see no one responded.
I decided on building a strong machine that will last me years, so the expense will be high.
Considering that, and that my post above was in July, I decided I'm NOT going to invest in AMD Gen 2 because of the latency issue in the architecture (or current Threadripper, cause it seems the software side is not yet optimized for over 32 threads).
I was ready to give Intel my money again (as the 10980XE performance seems to be a sure bet, cost not considered), but with AMD Gen 3 being said to NOT be delayed to 2021, this could (in my July thoughts) might bring an Intel expected counter move (be it out of the blue 10nm cpus or a radical price slash of the 10980XE)...
So biting my tongue for up to 6 month was the best logical move, as Gen 3 seeing the light of day and Intel's counter move should be reviled up to the end of 2020.
So, how things look now, what do we know 3 months till the end of 2020?
On Intel's side 7nm is not even on the horizon and 10nm desktops is pushed to second half 2021!!!
I won't be shocked if Intel will drop the desktop 10nm stage and just invest everything in making 7nm a viable option... and till then just suck it up.
If they won't do that? they will get 7nm out the door after 3 years of 7nm Gen 3 and see first steps of 5nm Gen 4.
For us mosquitoes it means we can only expect a war price from Intel, and that will (maybe) happen after Gen 3 will hit the stores, hopefully in the next 2-3 months. by then the choice will be a lower latency AMD (compared to current Gen 2), or a price slashed 10 gen 14nm Intel.
And we wait.....................................
I decided on building a strong machine that will last me years, so the expense will be high.
Considering that, and that my post above was in July, I decided I'm NOT going to invest in AMD Gen 2 because of the latency issue in the architecture (or current Threadripper, cause it seems the software side is not yet optimized for over 32 threads).
I was ready to give Intel my money again (as the 10980XE performance seems to be a sure bet, cost not considered), but with AMD Gen 3 being said to NOT be delayed to 2021, this could (in my July thoughts) might bring an Intel expected counter move (be it out of the blue 10nm cpus or a radical price slash of the 10980XE)...
So biting my tongue for up to 6 month was the best logical move, as Gen 3 seeing the light of day and Intel's counter move should be reviled up to the end of 2020.
So, how things look now, what do we know 3 months till the end of 2020?
On Intel's side 7nm is not even on the horizon and 10nm desktops is pushed to second half 2021!!!
I won't be shocked if Intel will drop the desktop 10nm stage and just invest everything in making 7nm a viable option... and till then just suck it up.
If they won't do that? they will get 7nm out the door after 3 years of 7nm Gen 3 and see first steps of 5nm Gen 4.
For us mosquitoes it means we can only expect a war price from Intel, and that will (maybe) happen after Gen 3 will hit the stores, hopefully in the next 2-3 months. by then the choice will be a lower latency AMD (compared to current Gen 2), or a price slashed 10 gen 14nm Intel.
And we wait.....................................