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An image says x series is for gamers. Are modern games that CPU intensive? Don't most major game engines depend almost entirely upon the GPU?
by harias 8y ago
An image says x series is for gamers. Are modern games that CPU intensive? Don't most major game engines depend almost entirely upon the GPU?
- josteink 8y agoIME gamers are those who most likely are willing to shell out noticeably more money for something which they perceive may potentially improve their game performance. Statistically I’m pretty sure most of them aren’t too scientific about their assumptions. Hence the huge market for lots of HW which no normal person would buy, explicitly targeted at gamers. TLDR: reality doesn’t matter as long as the x CPUs are faster :)
- ionised 8y agoGamers don't buy new CPUs hoping they might be faster, that's ridiculous. They check benchmarks and see what kind of gains they can expect over what they currently have.
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- kllrnohj 8y agoA non-trivial amount of the game is still on the CPU. All game logic is on the CPU. AI, physics, networking, audio, etc... are all CPU as well (GPU physics never really happened beyond particle effects). Even for rendering it's still the CPU preparing the commands and doing a first-pass curation to minimize rendering load. That said, in this case it's not so much running the games better, as yes the GPU is usually the bottleneck. It's more for gamers that also stream or similar, which is an increasingly popular thing. You can GPU offload it, but that hurts your game performance and GPU encoding quality tends to be relatively fixed and relatively poor. CPU encoding is more flexible and higher quality, and if you've got an extra 8 cores sitting around idle anyway might as well use those instead of eating into the GPU power budget. Also you've got the PCI-E lanes to run things like SLI or multi-GPU along with RAID NVME drives. Threadripper has 60 lanes. Something like an i7-8700k only has 16 PCI-E lanes - you can't even run a single GPU and an NVME drive without multiplexing your PCI-E lanes.
- skgoa 8y agoSoftware behaves like an ideal gas: it will always expand, if given more space. Modern games do a lot of stuff on CPUs that would have seemed insanely inefficient to do 10 years ago, simply because gamers have cores to spare.
- NullPrefix 8y agoSoon AAA games will be released on electron.