Right now it's pretty meh, since you can only give one os exclusive access to your gpu at a time. With SR-IOV, the guest os can be given access to metal kinda like IOMMU/VT-x does for the rest of hardware.
Oh I know all about DXVK, Wine, Proton, Etc. My issue with those is that when they work, they work spectacularly, and when they don't work it's a total fucking mess. I actually prefer using Linux as my daily driver for basic tasks like word processing and browsing and whatnot. With SR-IOV I'd be...
What's this? A prime example of what happens when a company with a jillion dollars decides to support a product until the end of its actual useful life? Nah!
Seriously though, the Nexus and Pixel phones are great if only for that : Google supports them until the point where they're literally too...
Welp, if you're on the fence, pull the trigger on that Dell now. I have a feeling that after they go public it'll be back to mass market crap boxes with zero configurability like they were up till about 2013
God I hope the bit about x570 being required for the 16 core parts isn't right. I'm gonna be pissed being as I just bought a Crosshair VII Hero earlier this year. If ASUS doesn't find a way to make it work (being as this board already has an auxiliary power connector for the CPU) I'm gonna be...
If pcie 4 is the x570 gotcha, I think I'll pass. Just don't need that extra bandwidth yet. Ill probably be better off sinking the money into a custom loop and 3700x.