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

[Pemalite]

fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

Absolutely false. 720P is still important and used often by a chunk of the market.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

Often it's desktops that use integrated graphics or the lowest-rung discreet GPU's that would sit at 720P... It's not just notebooks and portable systems.

I think you need to recheck the steam hardware survey stats since only 0.4% of all displays account for a 720p resolution. The next most common resolution is 768p which is a very rare desktop supported monitor resolution and is more commonly found in Laptop supported display resolutions ...

False.
The notebook before my Ryzen notebook was 1280x720 resolution. I also have an old 32" Television in the shed which is 1366x768 and I have an old 17" LCD monitor which is 1366x768.

In-fact a few years ago most low-end Twisted Nematic panels that were 21" and smaller were 1366x768... And Newegg USA itself has 230~ such 1366x768 panels verses 4x for 1280x720 panels.

Couple of 1366x768 desktop monitors as an example:
- https://www.newegg.com/lg-19m38d-b-19-wxga/p/N82E16824025394
- https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16824260378

fatslob-:O said:

Also, integrated graphics is irrelevant to the topic of this discussion at hand which is about CPU performance because at that graphics performance is more important than CPU performance ... 

720p is especially irrelevant for high-end gaming and shouldn't be used for testing purposes at all ... 

Integrated graphics is entirely relevant. If you are running say... A Ryzen APU with 11 Vega CU's, you are not gaming at 1080P. You are gaming at 720P which these benchmarks tend to represent and the CPU can quickly become the limiting factor. - Many people also happily buy an APU for gaming purposes with the intention of dropping in a discreet GPU at a later date.

720P benchmarking is meant to place an emphasis on CPU performance discrepancies in the most extreme of scenarios, it is not going to be applicable to everyone, but they also hold some statistical value for others.