Pemalite said:
Vashyo said:
I'm banking on multi-core gaming to become much more prominent once the weak 8 core console CPUs get utilized. It's apparently easy to transfer the power gained there to PCs. Theres not a single game that benefits from the 4 extra cores of 8320 today though. But it's plenty enough good for currentgames still.
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Well. Games probably won't be using 8 cores for a long time yet as games won't be able to use all 8 cores on the consoles due to having a core or two reserved for other functionality like the Operating System and Kinect and other tasks.
But even when you load up all of AMD's 8-cores in a task such as encoding, it's still slower than a non-Hyper Threaded Intel Quad-Core, Haswell is that good.
At the end of the day though it's more than enough for most gamers needs, whether the money saved by going AMD is worth it or not, is up to the individual.
My FX 8120 system for example has been running at 4.8ghz since I got it, I am yet to run into a game it *cant* run, if all I did was play games I would probably have stuck with that CPU, unfortunatly for what I want, it's useless.
Besides AMD's 8-core Jaguar isn't going to be any faster than Intel's Hyper-Threaded Haswell Dual-Core Core i3 anyway, this generation will see far less CPU overhead for games as now game developers will be targeting *all* the instruction sets and little nuances in x86 land to eek out more performance, which didn't happen with the last generation.
CGI-Quality said:
Eh, it's unecessary right now. NO game will chug this thing, and my dev/rendering apps have gotten quite the boost (the IVB-E making less of an impact than the two Titans). Besides, this will be a year or so build before upgrading to the next gen parts (Haswell-E/Maxwell), so I'll be covered with stock till then.
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Fair enough. I wan't the Haswell-E 8-cores/16-threaded chip.
That thing is going to be a monster, we should expect around 20-25% increase in IPC, 33% more cores. :)
Oh and shiny DDR4. :D
Probably a good thing it's still 1-2 years away, gives me time for my bank account to recover after this spade of upgrades.
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I know consoles use 6 cores for games but getting this I will have good headroom if I multitask. I feel this is just not good time to invest on Intel since AMD has allmost everything in it's pocket, atleast not until I see how new games coming on next-gen consoles compare.
http://allforgamenews.com/2013/10/02/watch-dogs-pc-system-requirements-revealed-support-x64-8-core-2gb-vram-recommended So far watchdogs recommends 8 core setup allready, btw.
