TheHerald
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Im not asking you to speculate on whether they will or won't be more efficient. I'm asking that if they are (that's a hypothetical, not a speculation) what would that mean. So sure, not 2 years behind, 1 year and 10 months behind.The last thing I'm going to say about this, until we know the real street prices and have actual performance & power data is that I also think you can't quite claim the current Raptor Lake product are reflective of Intel @ 2 years ago (or even 22 months, since Raptor Lake launched in late October, not mid August). The reason being that it doesn't account for the current maturity of their manufacturing node, which is enabling Intel to sell them at their current pricing.
Okay, I'm done speculating, here. We only have just under 2 weeks until the first Ryzen 9000 series drops. No amount of speculation beats having real data.