I have a Gen1 Threadripper system. I have a mixed gaming, but mostly workstation workload. In modern, unoptimised games my GPU (rtx3000 product line) is already being CPU bottlenecked, but only slightly, 5-10%. And it has too little VRAM for properly accelerating my workstation tasks.
I’d like to upgrade my hardware with an AMD 1st gen DDR6 CPU (prob. 2027) and buy an according GPU in the same year. I’m planning a usage duration for at least 10 years and then probably same thing but with DDR8.
My priority is to have an excellent price/performance ratio. I only want to buy something new, if I know it will last me a long time.
How good is my plan at accomplishing my goal? I’d like some feedback please. How would you go about it?
DDR6? What? Didn’t DDR5 just start becoming common?
Seems reasonable to me, although I might be lacking perspective since my latest hardware is already 6 years old.
In previous years, my criteria was to upgrade once the hardware was holding back my workflow and productivity. But with Moore’s Law coming to a plateau, I’ve upgraded my RAM, GPU, and SSD not because I have to, but just because I got an very good deal on them.
Sounds like a good plan. Upgrade if you feel like it and have the dough. The best time is now and/or never.
Speed differences have become more theoretical with every new generation and “mandatory upgrades” have been decades apart lately. Unless win14 is injected into the brain I don’t see any changes to the current status quo.
As others have said, the general rule is simple: if it no longer runs what you want it to run, upgrade.
For example, I have an Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU. It’s no longer that new, it’s like 5+ years old at this point. But most of the games I play are at least 10 years old—I think the newest, and most graphically intense, game I own is Cyberpunk 2077—and my GPU runs them just fine.
So, why would I spend hundreds of dollars on a new GPU when it’s still wholly functional for my needs?
As someone with a burned out 9800x3D and an equally useless X870 motherboard, I would personally say to maybe wait for benchmarks, user reviews, and such for whatever CPU AMD puts out in 2027.
