Threadripper boards having >60 PCIE lanes was interesting, too. Wonder what the price will be.
Max i9 has is 44 lanes and that only on $999 7900x.
Models below use 28, gg to those who want to run dual GPU with full x16 PCIe.
And that while whoknowshowmuchbutsurelycheaprthaniintels ThreadRipper comes with yeehaa 64 lanes, so you could go quad GPU at full x16 PCIe. And it is soldered too, vs TIM on Intel's lineup.
It's actually so interesting that Intel will inevitably lose some of the HEDT market,
To be fair, GPU drivers are some of the most complex software projects on the planet.
So that's not really an excuse, just a statement of fact.
That's one of the main reasons AMD is/was pushing low-level APIs so hard. Of course, that just pushes the low-level per-GPU optimization to game developers, many of which are even less equipped for that than GPU manufacturers.
Yeah, complex, so what. Is it complex to a point of "Intel's GPUs are underwhelming, because Intel doesn't know how to write drivers"? (Raja's point) I doubt it, to be honest.
So, in the end, the conference was for nothing, right?
Bottom line:
1) ThreadRipper looks shiny
2) Vega isn't there yet
3) Vega's is highly unlikely to beat 1080Ti
4) OEMs are all onboard with Ryzen, and even Ryzen + Polaris notebooks are available (Dell has that lovely 4k all in one with 580)