The Bore Wars Have Begananant

The Core wars are over... the bore wars have begin. And competition has never been fiercer as Intel and AMD race to make THE most boring new generation of products the world has ever seen. Zen 5, a 'grounds-up' redesign of the Zen architecture, manages almost identical performance to Zen 4. Meanwhile, Intel's Ultra lineup teases at a performance regression! Youtube react content about these things is going to be so spicy, I can't wait

0:00 - DULL

0:56 - Zen 5

2:21 - Power efficiency?
3:39 - Pricing
4:07 - Intel Ultra whatever
5:29 - NEW COARS
7:29 - The Bore Wars have begun
8:03 - What's the point in living any more???

[YoYoBobbyJoe]

Hi Philip! Long time fan! I really enjoyed this video! It was chill and laid-back in the perfect way. I don't want to pretend I understood hardly anything you were talking about in it, but it was still a very pleasant video.

[dovesr]

Last gen: NOOOO you can't just pump a ton of power into the CPU for more performance!!!
This gen: NOOOO you can't take away power, think about the performance!!!

[emilemil]

I care a lot about efficiency because poor efficiency translates into high heat and therefore high noise. I like my PC to be quiet when I'm playing quiet games, watching movies, doing work, or pretty much everything that isn't loud gaming or music. High efficiency is also very exciting news for laptops and handhelds that are always limited by thermals and that will see a much greater performance uplift. I also think that people overlook how much money you can save from the reduced energy consumption, especially in areas where electricity is expensive. You can easily save 100+ dollars over the lifespan of the CPU if you're a heavy user, so if you factor that into the total price of the product then it becomes a lot more exciting.

We've seen remarkable performance gains every generation for a while now, but part of that is because TDP has also been going up and up. It's not sustainable long-term, at some point the focus must shift to efficiency, and that time seems to be now for CPUs. It's pretty boring but also necessary, and it leaves room for significant performance improvements down the line as TDP will inevitably start climbing back up again.

[WayStedYou]

2 Manspreads Philip'e asserting dominance on the viewers.

[Sen]

This video didn't need to be in 4k 60 fps but I'm glad it is

[zendefta]

"Fk all" is probably my fav brit phrase 😂

[Name_cannot_be_blank]

I like that hes using a camera!
And he probably did it to not be called AI voiced for the millionth time as usual...

[tamius-han]

I think that people who complain about how there's been no performance gain never had to pay for their own electricity. I am kinda excited about the "same performance but for less power" way things are going, at least my room won't become a sauna the instant I start playing a game.

[ArchLars]

The chads who haven't upgraded their computer in 8 years watching this.

[ollie_]

I just want to say I really enjoy those tech videos.
The ones about JPEG XL and other compression algorithm were extremely enjoyable as well, please make more tech videos of that style, I like learning stuff

[Cory_]

The spread legs with the three YouTube plaques in the background is a power move if I've ever seen one.

[Paelmoon]

This was definately made before the 9800x3d came out lol.

[goldroger]

@0:14 should have used the Vsauce music

[royorbit]

Gosh, I feel like I’ve seen shots of you running around and throwing cash about the place, photos and VR mattress madness - but to see you actually do a video on camera with the same music and style was so jarring and uncanny to me!!

But in a good way, like when you are talking to a girl online for years and you finally meet up and she isn’t quite what you expected but you fall in love with her for a whole bunch of new reasons. Julia if your reading this I miss you i want to see the kids!!

[mlgpro]

i think this is the first video where you seemed to be very natural in front of the camera, great to see the improvement of our kind king philip :)

[macksii]

i'm curious if showing your human self increases retention by a huge amount

[Kiyuja]

My personal hot take is that this gen is actually pretty fine, for the following reasons.
-We NEED wider adoption of modern Instruction Sets like AVX-512 to motivate developers to take advantage of them to boost performance and increase battery life.
-Nobody loses here, people who get the latest and greatest OR have to upgrade now (maybe with a laptop) yield the benefits, people on last gen dont have FOMO to spend money again AND "bang for buck" people now enjoy current gen performance at a discount.
As long as this isnt a permanent trend everybody wins here, even the passive cooled couch PC people...

[flyignpig]

7:46 Finally someone who understands the frustration of highlighting text only for the site to ask it I want to "share" it. I often read on the internet by highlighting the parts I want to focus on, and it becomes so distracting for this thing to pop up all the time.

[DamienCloud]

I was already following you when you were covering hl2, it truly is a blessing to have a person like you still making videos and still being real 10 years later, I love what you do and what you choose to talk about, thank you for your beautiful work ❤️

[cezannealves]

You forgot to mention the laptop market.
The efficiency improvements from both AMD and Intel in this generation means a lot for laptop users. On laptops, efficiency is the currency for performance, battery life, less heat, lightness and portability. And they needed to do an overhaul for efficiency on their architectures now to not lose a lot of laptop market share to Qualcom and Apple, which were way more efficient.