- Joined
- Apr 1, 2017
- Messages
- 420
- Motherboard
- Asus Z370-I
- CPU
- i7-8700
- Graphics
- RX 5700
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
14K to 18K passmark (i7-8700k to i9-9900k) is a nice bump, but not earth shattering. Individual cores don't seem much faster (about 6% - tiny), just the total # of cores jumps from 6 to 8. While 'nice' it's not earth shattering. For heavily multithreaded apps it's great, but otherwise, I doubt most would notice. If you render all day, do it, otherwise, meh.
I can't get excited about the jump to i9-11900k either, mostly due to pricing, but at least the per-core speed jumps from 2780 to 3500 - a 25% or so jump. Combine that with the jump from 6 to 8 cores and the overall speed almost doubles. But the price.... the need for (typically) new memory, (always) new motherboard, etc... - it adds up fast.
The issue I have with it is cost (I'm not constrained by much if anything right now, except graphics mostly; I could always use faster graphics), and also the knowledge that (for MacOS at least) I'd be throwing (_pouring_) money into a dead platform that won't see the latest MacOS neat features. (Intel doesn't get all the features the ARM side gets; it's very minor right now, but I doubt that will last long.)
I'm holding out until I understand what's going to happen with Apple's position on external graphics cards (is this 580 & 5700 I have of any value in the future? Should I sell my graphics cards while the market is still red-hot?), the M1X and M2 performance, etc. I don't want a thin and light laptop - I want a large desktop machine - and now the only question is how much I have to pay to get it, and what the graphics / games situation will look like once I get it.
I can't get excited about the jump to i9-11900k either, mostly due to pricing, but at least the per-core speed jumps from 2780 to 3500 - a 25% or so jump. Combine that with the jump from 6 to 8 cores and the overall speed almost doubles. But the price.... the need for (typically) new memory, (always) new motherboard, etc... - it adds up fast.
The issue I have with it is cost (I'm not constrained by much if anything right now, except graphics mostly; I could always use faster graphics), and also the knowledge that (for MacOS at least) I'd be throwing (_pouring_) money into a dead platform that won't see the latest MacOS neat features. (Intel doesn't get all the features the ARM side gets; it's very minor right now, but I doubt that will last long.)
I'm holding out until I understand what's going to happen with Apple's position on external graphics cards (is this 580 & 5700 I have of any value in the future? Should I sell my graphics cards while the market is still red-hot?), the M1X and M2 performance, etc. I don't want a thin and light laptop - I want a large desktop machine - and now the only question is how much I have to pay to get it, and what the graphics / games situation will look like once I get it.
