what hardware is coming out in the next few months and should you wait for it for star citizen that
is what this video is all about we're going to go through some of the leaks for all the different
companies and see what's on the horizon and what might be interesting and just give you a bit of
an overview basically of what to expect from amd intel and nvidia in the next few months let's get
into it let's start off with intel because i think this is probably the most boring stuff we'll save
the juicy stuff for last first of all we've got cpus and actually we do have gpus but we'll come
on to that in a minute cpus we've got currently until i've got the 12th gen old leg cpus out and
they are very good for star citizen only matched or so only beaten by the 5800x3d but they will be
releasing the 13th gen here is an early slide that seems to have leaked out and what that seems to
suggest is that we've got an increased processor core count although potentially that's just that
more e cores on some of the chips which isn't very exciting actually when i tested we found
that the e-course you probably want to turn them off for starters and especially on windows 10.
so that's there you've also more interesting you've got increased l2 and l3 cache so
the reason the 50 800 x3d from amd did so well is because it has a massive pool of cache that the
whole cpu it can use it's kind of unified across everything whether intel have had enough time to
respond to that and change the architecture to do that i don't know i wonder if actually it's
just got a little bit more l2 and l3 cache per uh cpu per core and whether that will actually
make much difference we'll have to see again on this slide we see a bump of ddr5 speed again when
we tested this we found that ddr5 is faster um and i actually had some 5600 megahertz stuff
it is faster than ddr4 uh 3600 at least that i had this hopefully will mean that they'll
be able to push ddr5 modules further and so we'll see higher speeds and more ports because
there's undoubtedly going to be speed to be found in ddr5 but for now we're wanting to
see those those uh the latency come down and the speeds go up as much so we'll see what that does
but overall on the cpu side i will be interested to see i will buy one of these i'll test this
against the current 12 700 kf's that i've got uh and also the 5800x3d and we'll see how they
match up but normally cpus you'd expect maybe a 10 improvement in generations like this with intel
that won't be enough to beat the 5800x3d in star citizen so we will see we'll do the testing but i
am not holding a massive hope that this will be incredible we'll see we'll have to wait and see
the thing to say is that maybe if you've got an order like system already and the motherboard
that's compatible with these because they've got the two generations of compatibility that
intel do so old lake and raptor lake 12th and 30th gen will work on the same motherboards
so if you've already got an older light system then maybe one of these will be worth a nice
little maybe 10 15 boost in performance we'll see again we'll test it but i don't think i
would necessarily recommend going out and buying one of these because when coming to
amd in a minute you're going to see that they potentially got a bit of a longer term option
on their site so this might be coming out around october time is the rumor let's just cover that as
well roughly we'll see but then we've also got gpus from intel starting to come out now these
have been in development it feels like for ages and so maybe you've seen these but maybe haven't
but yes intel are joining the market for gpus and hopefully will eventually provide some actual
competition for the other two companies i don't think necessarily that's gonna be the case with
these first ones this one here that somebody's managed to get in the us they're only selling
in china at the moment but this one is around a nvidia 1650 performance wise or an amd 6400 so
it's nothing mind-blowing and there will be higher models but it's probably going to take a while for
intel to kind of really challenge at the top end but who knows we'll see that's intel let's
get into amd amd first of all let's talk am4 cpus because a while back there was some kind of weird
communication from amd saying they're not quite done with am4 the current platform that they've
got it does seem as though they may be about to release a 5600 x 3d so basically a v cash
version of the 5600 so that is surprising to me i didn't expect that to be the case but that could
be a really really good chip so similar to the 5800 x3 a 5600 with loads more l3 cache which
what we found with the 5800 x3d is that basically makes a massive difference to performance
in star citizen so that is a good start the more exciting news i think is the move to am5 so this
is the new platform from amd and it's going to be on five nanometer and here is a a suggested
leak of the liner what's interesting about this is we've got a complete exclusivity to ddr5 they're
not going to support ddr4 on this according to the league so far uh and that's interesting it's
just a clean break basically to say if you want to go onto this platform you need to jump to ddr5
that from again from the testing we did with intel that's not a bad thing and that will increase
performance but they are pricey uh although they have dropped in price quite a lot the ddr5
ram modules so that isn't a bad thing and yeah this is gonna be good the leaks are suggesting
uh that maybe sometime in september was when we'll get an announcement slash a release date so
that will be good and again the interesting stuff about this and and why i potentially lean towards
this rather than the intel stuff although we have to wait for for performance is that
this platform potentially might be in use for another five years we might get
in the same way that we have with am4 it might be the same thing where basically
we are going to just be supported for a long time that's the hope there's no confirmation of that
but the hope is that amd they'll do this and then these cpus that you release now will be massively
superseded by ones that are released in like three years time but you can keep the same motherboard
pretty much all the way through so we'll see about that what is again interesting is that i don't
think these are going to come with the v cash that the 5800 x2d has got initially so i think
they are going to have basically a separate lineup so they'll have their normal non-3d chips and then
potentially they'll have some 3d chips that come hopefully probably above some point in next year
so 2023. it will be interesting to see because the cash made such massive difference with the 5800x3d
will the just the general improvements that they've made with these 7000 series chips will
that take them past the 5800x3 or will we have to wait for the v cash versions of those ships
to really see a big boost in pause in statism so that's interesting but i would keep a good
eye out on these chips because i think this is probably more interesting to see how they perform
than the intel ones but that's that then let's move on to some gpu news and there's not much
really so far that's come out about the 7000 series of gpus for amd um maybe they're just
a bit further out but what they have got i'll put this quote up and read it for you
talking about power efficiency because you may have seen that there's massive rumors about the
nvidia cards and we'll come on to that in a minute that they're going to use loads and loads more
power than the current generation so you're going to potentially having to go out and buy bigger
power supplies all that sort of stuff so what if amd said and they're basically confirming that
they should be more efficient than nvidia but they are heading in the same direction so the quote
from some vice president of something or other the demand for gaming and compute performance is
if anything just accelerating and at the same time the underlying process technology is slowing down
pretty dramatically and the improvement rate so the power levels are just going to keep going up
now we've got a multi-year road map of very significant efficiency improvements to offset
that curve but the trend is there performance is king but even if our designs are more powerful
power efficient that doesn't mean you don't have to push power levels up if the competition nvidia
is doing the same it's just that they'll have to push them a lot higher than we will
so they don't know that's true but that's their thinking amd think that they've got the efficiency
crown and we'll see when these gpus come out how will pricing be affected obviously everything in
the world costs loads more at the moment and it will be really interesting to see how pricing for
these cars and their video ones come out because they're both pretty much competing on a level
playing field in terms of performance and so the hope is it doesn't it doesn't always work
like this and almost never works like this but the hope is that we'll have some competitive pricing
but i just think the way the world has gone and with pricing just for everything that might be
a bit optimistic but anyway interesting that uh they're gonna have some good gpus again i think
from amd this generation which is really good to know not sure exactly when they'll come seems
as though they're a little bit behind maybe the nvidia ones and actually i think the pattern has
been for the last few generations that amd will wait for nvidia to release and then counter so
we'll see with that but yes very exciting stuff from amd they're doing well it's good to see
let's move on to the green team now nvidia gpus they've done really well over the last few years
they've been in a really dominant position but amd have come fighting back and we've got an actual
competition now which is really good to see we are going to see some interesting performance and
power consumption from this generation of cars all of the main leagues have been basically
talking about the fact that nvidia in order to compete with amd are going to have to really
push up the power requirements and that seems to be what they're doing here's a leak of the
4090 4080 and 40 70 what we think is coming and you'll see the stats here the main one to look at
is the power supply or the power draw that's projected and the cap of 450 watts on the 4090 is
massive even on the 4080 there's potentially going to be a new power uh connector that some
power supplies will come with so we might have to be going out buying
different power supplies and actually a lot of people if you've got say like a 500 watt
or even a 600 watt power supply it's going to be close so you might want to upgrade anyway so
that's going to be interesting we might see real bumps in performance because as we say they have
to actually compete with amd and amd are really pushing the gpus so the 4090 potentially might
be double the the speed of the 30-19 we'll see when they actually come out whether that will
be the case that's a 24 gigabyte card ddr6 x again i think i think they already were
and but the 48 is the one that i'm interested in i've got 3080 and i'll be testing generationally
against the 4080 if i'm getting my hands on one but that's a 16 gigabyte card which is a big
increase over the 10 gigabytes of the third eddy whether that's actually needed in the testing i've
done before i don't think that the star citizen is getting anywhere near that but we'll we'll
have to see what i'm really interested about with this generation of cars is are any of these cars
and again i'm not going to go out and buy a 4090 but will the 4080 be a 4k star citizen car because
we found now that none of the cars that are on the market even if you were to get the 30 90 ti or
something crazy about that they're just not 4k uh cards for star citizen starts in its current state
really really does push things at 4k so it'll be interesting to see how much of an improvement this
generation is and the same with the classroom amd and to see can we get closer to a 4k 60
sort of experience because now we've got cpus that can actually blow past 60fps
in some areas like the 5800x3d we're gonna we really need some gpus to kind of match them so
obviously that's only for people who are really at the top end have got loads of money to blow
but it's going to be interesting and again i'm very excited to do some testing on the 4080 and
and hopefully if money commits we can get some of the amd cards as well so
there we go lots and lots of things i'll just change the color for the outro
there we go i've currently uh i'm currently i don't see the sweat dripping down my face
the uk is in the midst of what can only be described as unprecedented scenes it's so
so hot here it's like 30 degrees today which really doesn't happen very often in the uk
and uh i've moved house as well and i'm in a new set of getting everything ready so
hopefully this will work and we'll get everything together but that's enough of this one if you
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