What are you most excited for?

[W1zzard]

Second half of 2022 will see a lot of exciting hardware releases. Which one gets you up at night?

 

[Athlonite]

Definately RDNA3 and also Ryzen ZEN 4

 

[Daven]

RDNA3 and Zen4 will power my next from the ground up build.

 

[dgianstefani]

We don't particularly need more CPU power, especially for gaming. Current gen 12900k/5800x3d can do 1440p/240fps with no issues.

RTX 4000 will be interesting as it should allow 4k/120 RT or 1440p/240 RT.

RDNA 3 we'll see.

 

[qubit]

I can't vote in the poll. Is it closed?

 

[P4-630]

Raptor Lake, as it will be my last possible upgrade on Z690.
Also RTX 4070/80. (have a G-Sync only monitor)

Therefore I don't care much about the new AMD hardware.

I can't vote in the poll. Is it closed?

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[igralec84]

I'm team green but will choose the best option for 4K 144fps gaming (price/performance wise, so probably not the 4090 haha).

Voted for Nvidia Ada but will be keeping an eye on RDNA 3. The Zen 4 stuff after seeing what the prices are supposed to be, not so much and will wait to see just what the gains over Zen 3 are...

 

[Daven]

Raptor Lake, as it will be my last possible upgrade on Z690.
Also RTX 4070/80. (have a G-Sync only monitor)

Therefore I don't care much about the new AMD hardware.



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First and last upgrade on Z690 or put another way the only generation upgrade.

 

[Dr. Dro]

RX 7900 XT, come to papa!

I have huge expectations out of it, I bet it will have unprecedented raster performance.

 

[Daven]

We don't particularly need more CPU power, especially for gaming. Current gen 12900k/5800x3d can do 1440p/240fps with no issues.

RTX 4000 will be interesting as it should allow 4k/120 RT or 1440p/240 RT.

RDNA 3 we'll see.

So the RTX 3090Ti does an average of 101FPS at 4k and the 6950XT does 93 FPS but you only see the RTX4000 reaching 120FPS? Those numbers are the difference of one or two optimized games and if both companies can only achieve 20-30% increase in the next gen to reach your 120 Hz target then they both fail.

You need to set your sights a bit higher and you might need something other than FPS to differentiate since both companies are so close.

edit: nvm, I read RT as FPS for some reason. I’m not sure anyone can get that high without some serious super sampling.

 

[Sithaer]

I'm in the market for a new mid range-ish GPU but not interested in the higher end models that comes first this year and the 60 tier cards wont come anytime soon so idk, voted RDNA 3 anyway.

CPU I don't plan on upgrading for a good while so no personal interest there, more like curious to see the reviews only.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Hope to see amd 7 series hand intel their asses again like they did with 5k series

Put one in a lappy and bring it to poppa amd

 

[Xeanoa]

AMD promised more than 50 % performance per Watt increase over RDNA2. I want to see that happen.

With electricity prices rising everywhere, I feel efficiency does not get enough reviewer attention.

 

[kiakk]

Amd promised more than 50 % performance per Watt increase over RDNA2. I want to see that happen.

With electricity prices rising everywhere, I feel efficiency does not get enough reviewer attention.

At least techpowerup have measurement for power consumptions. That is the main reason I am here.

I am waiting for the next gen. APU.
I hope AMD will produce a well balanced mid-range APU and not like 5600G, 5700G. In my opinion they are very bad product, due to they are unbalanced: very high CPU performance with nothing special GPU performance and PCIe 3.0 support...?! Somebody were drunk in the company who said yes to this product.

For gaming need a much better iGPU (Not Vega with 7 CU like 5600G but min. 11 CU) moderate CPU performance (like 4c/8t or 6c/t). This whould be a good performance/power consumption ratio.

 

[Xeanoa]

At least techpowerup have measurement for power consumptions. That is the main reason I am here.

Yes, and it's a good thing. But even then it's still just a page near the end, only a single type of workload to get a rough picture.
It still does not get enough attention in my opinion. Not just TPU, but reviewing and tech press in general. Getting 5 % more performance while using 100 W more gives manufacturers better press than using 100 W less while only losing 5 % of performance.

 

[geniekid]

Hey...where's the Arc option?

 

[P4-630]

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[defaultluser]

At least techpowerup have measurement for power consumptions. That is the main reason I am here.

I am waiting for the next gen. APU.
I hope AMD will produce a well balanced mid-range APU and not like 5600G, 5700G. In my opinion they are very bad product, due to they are unbalanced: very high CPU performance with nothing special GPU performance and PCIe 3.0 support...?! Somebody were drunk in the company who said yes to this product.

For gaming need a much better iGPU (Not Vega with 7 CU like 5600G but min. 11 CU) moderate CPU performance (like 4c/8t or 6c/t). This whould be a good performance/power consumption ratio.

Well yeah,

Bonus: you now get free GPU on all desktops. Con: its slower that than a 5600G.

There will eventually be a APU -focused desktop IGP from AMD, but don't expect it out day-one. - but me, I'm just happy I no-longer have to castrate my Zen 4's performance to get an IGP backup option (that actually supports 4k 120 output)

 

[kiakk]

You are right, but we could say Manufacturers are also do not care much about perf/watt ratio, because they push the limits of the used production technology. So I mean for example, while the optimal working technology is around 800-900mV they let the chip boost to 1150mV with higher frequency. Every manufacturer do the same, because they afraid from losing and customers wathing performance/money.

Hard to imagine it will change, does not matter If we will burn down the planet.

 

[ThrashZone]

I can't vote in the poll. Is it closed?

Hi,
Nope not closed just on the Home page

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[MrDweezil]

All set at CPU for quite a while, so I guess I'm most excited for whoever is selling a new $400 GPU first.

 

[Angry TacoZ]

For me its AMD Zen 4 because im waiting on it to build a new PC to replace my Ryzen Zen+ PC. Not sure who ill go with GPU wise yet, but Radeon was so bad at ray tracing this gen, that im not going to be excited for it until we see benchmarks of it competing in RT this time.

 

[MarsM4N]

"AMD RDNA™ 3 gaming architecture that combines a chiplet design, next generation AMD Infinity Cache™ technology, leading-edge 5nm manufacturing technology, and other enhancements to deliver more than 50% greater performance-per-watt compared to the prior generation."

“Zen 4” CPU core expected to power the world’s first high-performance 5nm x86 CPUs later this year. “Zen 4” is expected to increase IPC 8%-10% and deliver more than a 25% increase in performance-per-watt2 and 35% overall performance increase compared to “Zen 3” when running desktop applications." Source

Let's see if the claims turn out to be true. Power efficency will be a big selling point this time around.

 

[pavle]

Second half of 2022 will see a lot of exciting hardware releases. Which one gets you up at night?

None.

 

[Chomiq]

Out of the all listed? Maybe RDNA3, I'm curious what sort improvements can be made by AMD when it comes to RT performance.