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Originally Posted by Sage Truthbearer
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Interesting topic.. Why wouldn't having more cores be a good thing as developers begin to program multi-threaded games for the PC?
Unless you can show that signs point to a multi-threaded revolution is not inevitable and that processing is instead being offloaded onto GPU.
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Absolutely, and it IS already happening...albeit slowly.
Was just looking at some graphs the other day that were showing the FX8350 outperforming the infamous i5 2500k in several modern gaming titles. Titles that are sufficiently threaded now to properly load the 8350's cores. Now when both of these chips were new, an i5 2500k overclocked @ 4.0GHz would absolutely DECIMATE an FX8350, clocked @ 4.8GHz, in gaming!
This is the argument people are making for the Ryzen7 chips; that you can buy a 7700k and have the best possible gaming performance RIGHT NOW but over time the 7700k is going to become comparatively slower than the Ryzen7. Until eventually their paths cross, and 8c/16ts of the Ryzen7 start to mean more than the 5.0GHz and higher single-threaded IPC of the 7700k.