Raptor Lake and Zen 4 launched late in 2022. The single thread performance needle is kinda stuck since. Sure we have 7800X3D and soon there will be a 14900KS but the basic architectures are still the same. In other words, boring. There's the Apple M3 but that's hardly a mainstream CPU due to the pretty high price of admission for a decent 16GB/512GB laptop.
I really wish AMD had unveiled the Zen 5 performance figures on January 2nd, as a New Year's gift to techies. Unfortunately, their priorities have shifted to the enterprise sector, much to our collective detriment. I feel that these companies are getting lazier and more complacent due to rising costs of development and also because rich people these days have a lot more money to waste than the common man. I see people buying multiple CPUs just to find a golden sample. People showing off their TR Pro 7000 series rigs. So these people are spending enough FU money to keep these companies comfy and complacent and unwilling to make progress at a breakneck speed. Gone are the days of intense competition where we would get a new CPU in a matter of months, just to claim the performance crown from the competitor.
I really, really miss the good ole days. I wish I could be transported back in time, with the income I have now, to have some fun buying cool hardware and feeling the rush of running the AAA titles of the time at max settings.
I'm gonna let AMD off the hook coz they are at least coming out with Zen 5 in the very near future. However, Intel, I have some tough questions to ask you:
1) Is Pat Gelsinger STUPID??? What in the world makes him think that Raptor Lake Refresh is enough for much of 2024??? How can he be fine letting AMD walk all over Intel with Zen 5? They had plenty of time after Alder Lake to do enough tweaks to at least make the RPL-R have 20% more performance. It seems to me that Pat is not really running the show. Someone else behind the scenes is pulling the strings. But if Pat really has all the power he needs to make a positive and meaningful change, shame on him for letting Intel be so unproductive!
2) When is Intel gonna take its head out of its backside hole and start producing eDRAM again???? 256MB or 512MB eDRAM would do wonders for Raptor Lake Refresh, especially with stock DDR5-5600 RAM due to its higher latency. Heck, they could design a CPU package that has eDRAM as L4 and 16GB Enterprise Grade Optane as L5 cache to really boost system responsiveness to the moon. The Optane could be just an M.2 stick integrated into the CPU package that could be replaced in the event its write cycles get exhausted over several years.
3) Why can't Intel design a simple low height cooling solution with a copper heatsink that cools the CPU's underside, in addition to the cooling solution on the top??? Cooling 300W is asking too much with just one outlet for the heat to dissipate. Look, I don't support Intel's heinous power consumption figures but if they are gonna go that way, at least let the CPU lose the heat effectively so it doesn't throttle and it can maintain a much higher all-core clockspeed. I firmly believe that with the proper focus on cooling, Raptor Lake could do 6.5 GHz EASY! That's the only in-house process node benefit Intel has over the competition so Intel should have the brains to capitalize on it. Why is it that some random shmuck on the internet has this idea and not one genius soul INSIDE Intel????? Which again brings me to my suspicion that there are plenty of innovative suggestions from bright Intel people on how to progress forward effectively but some numbnut doofus in charge is vetoing their suggestions.
I'm not even gonna begin to explain how mad I feel at this very moment. In the animal world, evolution makes sure that the fittest lead the pack. In the human world, slimy, dishonest and utterly selfish politics dictate the outcome of any situation which is why the world is in the mess it finds itself in. Consider this post a wake-up call, my mighty super intellectual friends. Take back what's yours and kick the dumb people out of higher positions where the only thing they do is ruin it for everybody.
I really wish AMD had unveiled the Zen 5 performance figures on January 2nd, as a New Year's gift to techies. Unfortunately, their priorities have shifted to the enterprise sector, much to our collective detriment. I feel that these companies are getting lazier and more complacent due to rising costs of development and also because rich people these days have a lot more money to waste than the common man. I see people buying multiple CPUs just to find a golden sample. People showing off their TR Pro 7000 series rigs. So these people are spending enough FU money to keep these companies comfy and complacent and unwilling to make progress at a breakneck speed. Gone are the days of intense competition where we would get a new CPU in a matter of months, just to claim the performance crown from the competitor.
I really, really miss the good ole days. I wish I could be transported back in time, with the income I have now, to have some fun buying cool hardware and feeling the rush of running the AAA titles of the time at max settings.
I'm gonna let AMD off the hook coz they are at least coming out with Zen 5 in the very near future. However, Intel, I have some tough questions to ask you:
1) Is Pat Gelsinger STUPID??? What in the world makes him think that Raptor Lake Refresh is enough for much of 2024??? How can he be fine letting AMD walk all over Intel with Zen 5? They had plenty of time after Alder Lake to do enough tweaks to at least make the RPL-R have 20% more performance. It seems to me that Pat is not really running the show. Someone else behind the scenes is pulling the strings. But if Pat really has all the power he needs to make a positive and meaningful change, shame on him for letting Intel be so unproductive!
2) When is Intel gonna take its head out of its backside hole and start producing eDRAM again???? 256MB or 512MB eDRAM would do wonders for Raptor Lake Refresh, especially with stock DDR5-5600 RAM due to its higher latency. Heck, they could design a CPU package that has eDRAM as L4 and 16GB Enterprise Grade Optane as L5 cache to really boost system responsiveness to the moon. The Optane could be just an M.2 stick integrated into the CPU package that could be replaced in the event its write cycles get exhausted over several years.
3) Why can't Intel design a simple low height cooling solution with a copper heatsink that cools the CPU's underside, in addition to the cooling solution on the top??? Cooling 300W is asking too much with just one outlet for the heat to dissipate. Look, I don't support Intel's heinous power consumption figures but if they are gonna go that way, at least let the CPU lose the heat effectively so it doesn't throttle and it can maintain a much higher all-core clockspeed. I firmly believe that with the proper focus on cooling, Raptor Lake could do 6.5 GHz EASY! That's the only in-house process node benefit Intel has over the competition so Intel should have the brains to capitalize on it. Why is it that some random shmuck on the internet has this idea and not one genius soul INSIDE Intel????? Which again brings me to my suspicion that there are plenty of innovative suggestions from bright Intel people on how to progress forward effectively but some numbnut doofus in charge is vetoing their suggestions.
I'm not even gonna begin to explain how mad I feel at this very moment. In the animal world, evolution makes sure that the fittest lead the pack. In the human world, slimy, dishonest and utterly selfish politics dictate the outcome of any situation which is why the world is in the mess it finds itself in. Consider this post a wake-up call, my mighty super intellectual friends. Take back what's yours and kick the dumb people out of higher positions where the only thing they do is ruin it for everybody.
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