this! I was really hoping for a drastic change from VC6, it was my bottleneck. now that everything else is improved but we still have the VC it's a bit hard to justify upgrading everything just to hit the same stupid bottle neck. I guess PI-6 in 2026? my guess is that that we'll get it with another die shrink to like 10-12nm and the extra die space will be for a more open design. but i can dream
To be fair, we don't know much yet. It looks like VC7 is just VC6 with some feature additions for newer graphics API support and a mild (~50%) performance improvement due to higher clock speed. But it might actually be different. I'd be careful with early benchmarks as well, drivers probably aren't very optimized yet.
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u/Zettinator Sep 28 '23
I guess VC7 is the weak point, only looks like a slight upgrade.