No, but really gaming is the only mass market segment that will see a noticeable benefit from this.
This is also AMD taking shots at Intel.
Reminds me of of back when stereo equipment manufacturers spent engineering time trying to lower distortion specifications to 0.01%
That's funny but this actually will give decent performance bumps.
Other fields will receive a noticeable performance bump from this as well. Anything that does number crunching or math. Any type of rendering photos, videos, audio, or CAD.
Agreed. I just am amused by framing the performance gain in terms of entertainment rather than productivity. All my PCs are at least 5-8 years old now, with some running Windows 7 still. Every now and then, I take peeks at new hardware wondering if it's time to upgrade. I'm disappointed at CPU specs still running in the single digit Ghz speeds. It's just now you get 8-32 core processors. Most of my tools don't use more than one core at a time, so a 3-4 Ghz CPU is all I can hope for.
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