1Nocturnal101
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Great review and that efficiency is amazing. Ncase M1 Titan V anyone? You can do it with even an SFX600 PSU! Really impressive.
Well, I wonder how well games these days even USE more than 2-4 cores. I feel like they are still really limited by single core IPC performance and then do some offloading onto other cores but not for a really substantial difference which is why many titles still have MOAR CORE MOAR THREAD Ryzen chips well behind the Intel counterparts.
Actually, I would love to see an article on it..
Well, the answer is simple its a "chicken and the egg" problem the industry has. Engine Developers and Studios won't put the time into creating something that uses >4 core counts versus 4.5-5.5ghz IPC workloads unless it becomes the standard baseline, otherwise they are looking at the most broad approach to optimizing for all customers.
Like it or not Parallel Workloads are the future, implementing them however is a nightmare, even Intel is disgusted when the modern Instruction sets aren't being used properly.
Whether you agree or not, Ryzen did great getting more cores at a really good IPC for a really great price, like it or not AMD always seemed to have better Die bandwidth versus Intel's better Core design, Thanks to Ryzen it finally forced Intel to start increasing the Z platforms options and power an 8 core HT is on the way.
Intel does have 1 really bad problem, their cores are wicked fast the problem is everything that feeds(die package bandwidth L2 L3) those cores is slow the 7700k used to get stutters in quite a few games because the overall chip bandwidth couldn't feed the Cores fast enough.
Also on a Side note the Frostbyte Engine is the most difficult to program for because as of currently it is the absolute most advanced concerning hardware, in a similar manner CryEngine in Crysis for the time it came out, All you have to do is watch the CPU core % usage on a 7700k and a 1700x in Battlefield 1 and you can see the diff at different resolutions and you can see how and where the differences lie, even the 8700k for the most part is sitting at higher than 90%utilization per core at all times.