Increased clock speeds at no extra wattage.
what kind of thing would fully utilize the capabilities of this? The only thing that ever seemed to fully load my 7950 was a single cad file but other files nearly the same didn’t so I feel like it was some kind of bug.
A lot of times with these top end hardwares, it’s not that there’s anything right now you need it for, but in a few years you’ll still be able to run anything. In half a decade it will still be powerful enough for most things. Mid-range hardware might be showing it age in a few years and relegated to low-end work in 5 years.
As an example, a 1080ti is closing in on a decade old, and still manages solid 1080p performance in modern games.
As a professional vfx artist my daily workloads could easily saturate even the most monstrous cpu. Simulations and rendering will fully peg literally any processor your throw at it. Consider at our offices we have renderfarms with literally thousands of cpu’s and we regularly send jobs that take hours even with all that processing power. So at least in the space of creative development for visual fx and games production, the single cpu advances will always be welcomed, appreciated, and fully utilized.
The latest trends of pricing on the other hand… not so much appreciated (looking at you gpu’s and ram).
