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16 cores is pretty high end. I have a Ryzen 9 7900X which I bought last year and that is 12 cores/24 threads. It still retails for roughly $400. A lot of game
by nerdix 2y ago
16 cores is pretty high end. I have a Ryzen 9 7900X which I bought last year and that is 12 cores/24 threads. It still retails for roughly $400.
A lot of gamer CPUs don't have 16 cores. Neither the 7800x3D nor the 7900x3d have 16 cores. In the latest gen, only the 9950x3d will have 16 cores (it will likely be a $700 CPU). The 9900x3D is rumored to have 12 cores and the 9800x3D is rumored to have 8 cores.
- Alupis 2y agoIt depends how you count them; we're unsure what the game spec recommendations consider as cores. The 7800x3D, for instance, is 8 physical cores with 16 threads. Many systems will report this as 16 cpus. The difference between cpu, core and thread has become blurry. I'd bet the game recommendations mean 16 threads, not physical cores. In the PC gaming context, 16 is not unusual these days.
- nerdix 2y agoWe don't have to speculate. If you look at the actual tweet from Firaxis, they are recommending a Ryzen 9 5950X which is a 16 core/32 thread CPU or a i7-14700f which is a 20 core CPU (8 p-cores and 12 e-cores). So they are recommending more than an 8 physical core CPU for 4K/60 High (the specs for lower resolutions/framerates are a lot lower) Maybe a newer (AM5) 8 core/16 thread CPU will be equivalent. Like the 7700X is 8 core/16 thread but has better single core performance than the 5950X. Just depends on how well the game utilizes the extra threads.