To be fair, a lot of that 40% could be people whose first step of building a new PC is checking if it’s worth it, meaning they may well decide not to build one.
Lojcs@piefed.social 1 week ago
I don’t think that means what they say it does. There is no new gpu generation, no new cpu generation until next year (and even then the x3ds will take more time), and the performance increase between generations is getting very marginal. Not to mention there’s no reason to build a new pc when most people can just upgrade granularly.
The fact that 40% plan to build a new pc is crazy to me
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I saw the marginal improvements that were leading up to me getting my pc in 2020, and things haven’t really changed. My 6700xt/5600x/32gb memory serves me well for all the games I play. I’ll upgrade when my CPU is obsolete
felsiq@piefed.zip 1 week ago
Not sure how much gamers will care, but the next gen CPUs are leaked to have more cores per ccd so multitasking performance should go way up. Given the 9000 series mostly aimed for efficiency rather than speed, I’m expecting at least half decent gains for single threaded too.
This is mostly unrelated to your comment, I just wanted to share a small bit of hope about the performance increase aspect lol
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I think untill we see something like Intel’s reverse hyperthreading tech (where a single thread can be run across multiple cores), gains will be linked mainly to semiconductor improvements.
Like the Intel Quad core years and the 6th to 11th gen stagnation.