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Conina said:

JEMC said:

Taking back 10.4% of the market in just one quarter is... too good to be good? I mean, Ryzen CPUs are proving to be worth purchasing, but gaining so much ground is very, very surprising.

Vega... well, let's see how the consumer products fare before we judge them a failure (tho I've been saying that they would perform between a 1070 and a 1080 since they were first announced)

 

Well, PassMark’s "market share data" is based on benchmark submissions, and of course there will be a lot more benchmarking for a new CPU architecture (which gets a lot of optimization in the first months) than for an established CPU architecture with no big performance surprises.

So far the AMD gain in the Steam survey ain't that impressive:

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But most gamers probably aren't that eager to replace their CPUs (plus mainboard plus RAM) as long as their old CPU/mainboard/RAM combination is still fast enough for 60 fps in most games with the right GPU. A graphic card is much easier to replace and delivers higher performance differences.

And thanks to the slow CPUs in consoles and the shift to higher resolutions most multiplatform games will have their focus on GPU performance while the needed CPU-power stagnates the next years.

Looking at the provided graph, it's more than just benchmarking

As for Steam not showing any differences, I agree that replacing a GPU is a lot easier than a CPU, but there's also the "poor" performance of Ryzen compared to Intel when gaming at 1080p.

 

Ka-pi96 said:

It helps a lot, thanks!

I don't really care about resolution or anything, minimum load times between turns would be of much greater concern to me. Pretty sure my CPU is decent though, I bought a DX11 game (State of Decay) last year and it just said DX11 wasn't supported on my graphics card so it wouldn't even start, hence why I think that's what I need to upgrade.

The costs sound annoying, stupid miners! But more concerning is the power/cable stuff. Don't have access to my PC at the moment so can't even check if it would allow for an upgrade. At least actually replacing it sounds easy, thanks for the pictures on that part!

I guess I'm better off waiting for now, at least until I can check my PC to see what's possible in regards to upgrades. Hopefully there will be some good deals on stuff for the holidays too so maybe then!

Loading times in those two games will depend mostly on your CPU, because that's what calculates the AI routines and all that, a new GPU won't do much to improve loading times. A fast Hard Disk or an SSD will also help a lot with them, but replacing them can be more complicated.

As for cables and power consumption, a GTX 1060 uses around 120W and requires only 1 cable, so you should be able to install it on most PCs without problems.