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No game out right now is going to leverage all those cores, while gaming it's not going to be pushing 250W. As far as heat, the Vega 64 GPU I've got draws way
by x3sphere 8y ago
No game out right now is going to leverage all those cores, while gaming it's not going to be pushing 250W.
As far as heat, the Vega 64 GPU I've got draws way more power than that too. I don't think this product is really targeted towards gamers anyway, but I don't think they'd care much about the power draw.
- thom 8y agoI realise your general point is correct, but Football Manager 2018 is pretty mainstream and will eat as many cores as you throw at it.
- nomel 8y agoYou assume there’s that much computation to perform. If they’re able to achieve anywhere close to 100%, there’s a pretty extreme bug in the game.
- thom 8y agoI'm not sure how you see this as a bug - it runs a huge number of agent-based simulations to calculate match results, there are many matches to be played, and yes, it will use all your CPU power to do that. It doesn't do this 100% of the time, but the vast majority of computation in the game happens in a way that is very parallelisable.
- nomel 8y agoIf a football manager game maxes out a processor of this caliber, it's doing calculations for fun, not for function.
- thom 8y agoI don't see what your objection is to a game that is fundamentally a simulation, trying to simulate as much as possible as accurately as possible. You can sit down and watch every single one of the hundreds of games it simulates each day of game time for 90 minutes in real time, and the gameplay bears up pretty well to reality. You can also turn all this off and just run a single league, but I certainly appreciate the effort they've put into parallelising it. Obviously if you think games are fundamentally frivolous, then you'll think any amount of computational power sunk into them is also frivolous, but it seems an odd hill to die on.
- jonhendry18 8y agoOr its mining.