I don't understand why. The 13900K is just 5% stronger in gaming according to both Techspot (aka Hardware Unboxed) and Tom's Hardware's suites. It has 8 more total efficiency cores than the 13700K, and thus only 8 more total threads. Whether or not you choose to upgrade that in several years as a matter of strategy is irrelevant to the fact the 13900K isn't going to outlive the 13700K as a relevant gaming processor for an appreciable period of time. Their window as viable gaming processors, whether for Ultra/High settings, or to meet mandatory minimums, is going to be nearly identical.You really got me to rethink what I want to do now. I am not in dire need for upgrade because this PC is still kicking well. Its just timing as I planned to upgrade it early last year when news about raptor lake were emerging and I just wanted an upgrade, thats all. But seeing what it is I might as well just wait bit longer. The idea of buying something less powerful and then 2-3 years later replacing it isnt very exciting.
There is some upcoming options, so I dont know
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
AMD will be announcing their newest cards on 11/3.
1080 Ti is still a good card for 1080p/60 FPS high/ultra.
Older games. 1080 Ti can't even average 30 FPS in modern titles at 4k high/ultra.
That's 3 years off, so nobody knows, but at the pace recent generations have been going, no, they will only be onto the next generation, probably about halfway through its life, so the 5080. Although if that gen is at the halfway point there will probably be an intermediary upgrade (i.e. a "Ti" variant, or a "Super" variant, or some other variant with a minor upgrade such as to the VRAM or the reference clocks speeds).
Yes, it's normal. The 10GB variant was planned, but never released. What most likely varies from the Founder's Edition (aka the reference design) is the core and/or memory clock frequencies.
1080 Ti is still a good card. If you’re not disappointed with the frames and resolution of whatever games you’re running right now, I wouldn’t worry about it all. Ray tracing is nice but at the end of the day you aren’t missing much. It’s not even in that many games really.
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