It never crossed yours that whether they're there or not it changes nothing. Perhaps you find the presence of a code redeem paper too taxing for your psyche. Suppose that's understandable
You can always ask to have it removed since it's that huuuge an issue. Truly an earth shattering problem, better go order a 9900k. This bundle changes everything and these products now suck. It was exactly the same with that nvidia Control bundle a few weeks ago. Completely ruined those cards, i feel you.
Way out of context, but you know that. You're right it changes nothing, and that is what most of us here are indirectly saying about this bundle. The bottom line is that the CPU is still too expensive for what it does for most prospective buyers. And the games don't change that.
So I think we're actually all in agreement here. You just translate it differently.
There are things afoot to leverage more Ipc ,l4 cache, Big cores , node reduction and hybrid functionality ,these will trickle down.
Personally I see the Gpu stagnation being Nvidias fault ironically, they chased performance With die space for years and now will struggle to maintain that lead on smaller nodes whereas AMD have kept to the same doubling of performance every three ish years within a manageable die space allowing easier progression.
Intel and arm might shake up the Gpu space too since they truly have the most opportunity to innovate.
Your just being pessimistic im the opposite , and tsmc provided proof anyway the nodes are still providing gains in density.
Spot on, yes, I'm being pessimistic. Let's see what happens
Reason for pessimism: we've had a lot of 'this is going to reinforce Moore's Law' developments that turned out completely not feasible. In Zen's case, the biggest pitfall is latencies, so far so good, but at the same time, not flawless while the IPC / freq uplift isn't there at all - in fact - it seems to become increasingly difficult to keep higher frequencies below boiling point due to thermal density. Its getting increasingly hard to get more stuff done with the same amount of silicon. And just 'more silicon' is not Moore's Law, that's just more silicon.
In the end my reasoning is economy: if you need more chiplets or larger chips per CPU, you get less (good) CPUs per wafer, which kinda diminishes the cost advantage per wafer from shrinks.
