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The comparison (https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/cpu/compare?ids%5B%5D=Intel+Core+i7-2600K&ids%5B%5D=AMD+Ryzen+5+2600 https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/ben

The comparison (https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/cpu/compare?ids%5B%5D=Intel+Core+i7-2600K&ids%5B%5D=AMD+Ryzen+5+2600 https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/cpu/compare?ids%...) shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 (late 2018) barely manages to outdo the i7-2600K (early 2013) since the compound score difference is 7.54 - 6.16 = 1.38. Plus the gaming benchmarks that the Ryzen dominate are mildly misleading since all the games run above 60fps so average gamer will be fine, i.e. Witcher 3 comes in at 133fps on the i7-2600K and clocks 200fps on the Ryzen. Of course processors HAVE become massively faster but the question remains whether one has a workload that's sufficiently parallelizable to warrant the upgrade. Individual core speed improvements are still lacking.

onli 7y ago
The compound score is really just a rating. It does not reflect performance that way. You really want to look at the individual gaming benchmarks for this. There are many gamers using 144Hz displays now, so 60 FPS is just one of multiple possible targets :) Witcher 3 is also really not the heaviest of games. > Of course processors HAVE become massively faster but the question remains whether one has a workload that's sufficiently parallelizable to warrant the upgrade. Well, sure. But all common workloads are parallelizable now. Whether it's games or running your browser, the time of strictly single threaded workloads is over. > Individual core speed improvements are still lacking. Interestingly, that really depends on your definition, of what one expects. The difference in single threaded workloads is smaller than in multithreaded workloads - obviously, there are more cores - but the cores are also ~30% faster in this case, and Ryzen 3000 got another round of singlethread performance improvements. For example https://www.computerbase.de/2019-07/amd-ryzen-3200g-3400g-test/2/#diagramm-test-performancerating-fuer-anwendungen-single-core https://www.computerbase.de/2019-07/amd-ryzen-3200g-3400g-te... shows that, a benchmark of single core application workloads.
- dingdingdang 7y ago
  Yeah, you are right, especially in relation to the single core speed which I must admit I just had not looked into enough when writing my response. Had a look at https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html which confirms computerbase.de article exceedingly well in terms of the much improved single core perf across the Intel/AMD divide over last 5 yrs.

onli 7y ago

The compound score is really just a rating. It does not reflect performance that way. You really want to look at the individual gaming benchmarks for this. There are many gamers using 144Hz displays now, so 60 FPS is just one of multiple possible targets :) Witcher 3 is also really not the heaviest of games. > Of course processors HAVE become massively faster but the question remains whether one has a workload that's sufficiently parallelizable to warrant the upgrade. Well, sure. But all common workloads are parallelizable now. Whether it's games or running your browser, the time of strictly single threaded workloads is over. > Individual core speed improvements are still lacking. Interestingly, that really depends on your definition, of what one expects. The difference in single threaded workloads is smaller than in multithreaded workloads - obviously, there are more cores - but the cores are also ~30% faster in this case, and Ryzen 3000 got another round of singlethread performance improvements. For example https://www.computerbase.de/2019-07/amd-ryzen-3200g-3400g-test/2/#diagramm-test-performancerating-fuer-anwendungen-single-core https://www.computerbase.de/2019-07/amd-ryzen-3200g-3400g-te... shows that, a benchmark of single core application workloads.

dingdingdang 7y ago
Yeah, you are right, especially in relation to the single core speed which I must admit I just had not looked into enough when writing my response. Had a look at https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html which confirms computerbase.de article exceedingly well in terms of the much improved single core perf across the Intel/AMD divide over last 5 yrs.