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I believe their point is Threadripper is even poorer at gaming than some weaker and cheaper AMD CPUs (3900X, 5900X) or those Intel craps which have one single a
by rfoo 6y ago
I believe their point is Threadripper is even poorer at gaming than some weaker and cheaper AMD CPUs (3900X, 5900X) or those Intel craps which have one single advantage: running at 5GHz+. A disgusting number of modern games still depends on mostly single thread performance.
So, you can beat highest gaming PC at gaming, but that doesn't reflect your power at running "productivity" workloads.
- sandworm101 6y agoSingle-core performance is certainly one measure of a gaming cpu. But I would argue that "gaming" has evolved a little since. Gamers now also want to stream. They want to record. They want alt-tab to a video chat. They want to play one game while Steam is downloading updates for several others. Having extra unused cores can be useful in such situations. There is a use case for threadripper in gaming. There are also a few games (Factorio) where ram limitations can bottleneck before cpu/gpu limitations, where Threadripper's extra memory channels can really help.