@bsmaff any thoughts on the new raptor lakes? pricing and marketing benchmarks are too early to tell?
the new gpu of intel? obviously not for enthusiast but a mid tier card?
The processors were announced yesterday and seem to have impressive clock speeds and with Intel claiming decent boosts over the current 12th Gen CPU's.
This is information from Intel and without proper benchmarks it is difficult.
The small print on the Intel slides is very dodgy and isn't a fair comparison.
However the leaked benchmarks are putting the 13900K above the 7950X from AMD, which at the moment is one hell of a CPU and comfortably beating the 12900K.
The good news for me, is the new processor uses the same motherboard as the previous generation which is good.
The main criticism of the new AMD CPU, is it is not cheap with having to buy a whole new motherboard, ram and CPU.
I have not looked at the new Intel GFX cards, they keep getting delayed and driver issues in their previous cards means I have not looked the information.
I was going to buy a 4090 on launch, but given the £ is really shite now, means this is not looking viable - Overclockers were stating there was several AIB that would be similarly priced to the FE, but given the past week most of these cards have now increased over £100.
With some of the higher end ones going from £1899 to £2249, just in a week because the £ is so shit.
I will never be able to get a FE board, too many people will be after it and scalpers always win in hot product launches.
So will now be waiting for the AMD cards to be released and hopefully they will be able to provide much better value.. £2000 for a GFX card is just an absolute no from me - And never thought I would pay more than £1000.