I kicked intel to the curb, I'm a Ryzen boi now.

[Pemalite]

fatslob-:O said:

@Bold You know that's a patronizing statement so that needs to stop and objectively speaking 720p is NOT currently in widespread use according Steam statistics ... 

14.73% of polled Steam users have a 720P class panel.
That is widespread enough that it matters, that is more than 4k or 1440P users to put things into perspective.

14.73% against 90~ million monthly active users is 12.6~ million monthly users with a 720P~ class panel, that's not insignificant.

Sources:
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/au/steam-now-has-90-million-monthly-users/

fatslob-:O said:

768p USED to be a common desktop resolution but there's only ~200 or so monitors supporting that resolution that are currently being sold on newegg in comparison to over a thousand laptops that support 768pare being sold over there ... 

Exactly my damn point. - But it takes awhile for steam statistics to represent change in hardware, people don't throw away their old PC because a new GPU got released you know.

Take a look at the GPU page, there are users still running Radeon 7800~ class GPU's.

fatslob-:O said:

You'd have to go through the extra length to prove that those 768p steam users are mostly on desktop systems rather than portable systems like laptops ... 

Well no. I don't have to do a thing.
Newegg already represented a large amount of 720P panels still being sold. And that is just today.

The fact that portable systems also get bundled with 720P panels doesn't negate that and would also still be a demographic who might be interested in 720P benchmarks anyway, making your argument redundant.

fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

Not in all CPU bound scenarios at 720P.

Again, you aren't paying attention to benchmarks. Nearly all of Anandtech's IGP tests were at 720p and the 2400G wipes the floor against EVERY pure Intel parts ... 

Gamers on integrated graphics need not be worried about their CPU performance being a limiting factor, it is their GPU performance that they need to be concerned about ... 

Are you paying attention? CPU. Not GPU. Some games are going to be more CPU limited than others, especially strategy titles.

fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

And yet... They still going to make that choice and yet... They are still consumers... And yet, the benchmarks presented will be palatable to such a demographic.

That demographic must be extremely tiny or nonexistent in practice ... 

Almost 15% of the Steam userbase.

fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

See above. Clearly it use useful to some. Just because it's not useful to you, doesn't mean it's not useful to others.

If you can show that there are a sizable portion of users pairing low-end CPUs with high-end GPUs then it might become a useful datapoint but otherwise it's just speculation ... 

Doesn't matter how many people there are, it is still useful to some, don't go shifting the goal post.