Because they ' re casuals and don ' t require min maxing numbers which require specific legendaries . <| sep |> Intel They announced at Computex that they will launch their 7 th generation Kab Lake later this year but it seems at least to me that corei 57600 kkabylakecpubenchmarks isn ' t a too big improvement . AMD CPU Their new generation Zen will probably come out in early 2017 which may have a z e n r e l e asedatespecspricesrumours # performance performance boost . Nvidia Their new generation Volta may come out in the second half of 2017 contentuploads 201312 NVIDIAGPURoadmap . png . I haven ' t found anything about how much better they will be . AMD GPU Thier new generation Vega will come in 2017 contentuploads 201603 C a p s a i c i n P r e s entedbyAMDRadeonFINALpage 012635 x 357 . jpg . I ' ve read something about 12 Tflops performance which is a significat improvement . If you want to use a Intel cpu and think the 10 % performance increase is worth it you can wait until their 7 th generation , everything else will probably take too much time for you .