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High-end Intel chips are 8 logical cores; high-end Ryzen chips are 16 to 32 logical cores. When games becomes optimized for multiple cores, both sides win. It's
by desdiv 9y ago
High-end Intel chips are 8 logical cores; high-end Ryzen chips are 16 to 32 logical cores. When games becomes optimized for multiple cores, both sides win. It's only when games are optimized for more than 8 logical cores that AMD will start having an advantage, and AFAIK no game engine has ever been optimized towards such a niche market (between 8 and 32 logical cores). There will always be mid-tier desktop systems and laptops with less than 8 logical cores that could be your potential customers.
- sliken 9y agoNot sure what universe you live in. But for 99% of the world the "high end" is an i7-7700k with 4 cores/8 threads. Systems with nice parts designed for gaming are in the $1000-$2000 range ($350 for cpu, $150 for motherboard, $100-$200 for ram, $350-$650 for GPU, and a few $100 for the rest (SSD, case, fans, keyboard/mouse, etc) VERY few people spend more. AMD competes in this space with basically double the cores for the same money. Like say the R7-1700X, same price as the i7-7700k While 8 core intel's exist they are insanely expensive and don't typically do even 1% better at gaming. The 16-32 core Ryzen chips don't even exist yet.
- desdiv 9y agoi7-7700k is 8 logical cores. Ryzen 7 is 16 logical cores. I used the phrase "logical core" in my comment 5 times because it is unambiguous whether as the unqualified word "core" isn't (it could be referring to physical cores or logical cores).