By: Symmetry (someone.delete@this.somewhere.com), November 2, 2015 6:56 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
juanrga (nospam.delete@this.juanrga.com) on November 1, 2015 8:16 am wrote:
> Games? Most people don't game on octo-cores, and many enthusiasts will prefer octo-core
> Skylake. You also seems to omit the DX12 benchmark given to you. Even assuming that Zen
> is 50--60% faster than Piledriver, octo-core Zen was behind quad-core Skylake on the game.
I'd just like to point out that, baring causal gaming, most people play on an XBox or Playstation so actually do play games on octo-cores. Most modern AAA games are written for an octo-core system with PC support frequently tacked on as an afterthought and now that graphics drivers are moving to multi-threading I think that 8 cores or 4 SMTed cores will probably be the best gaming configuration going forward.
> Games? Most people don't game on octo-cores, and many enthusiasts will prefer octo-core
> Skylake. You also seems to omit the DX12 benchmark given to you. Even assuming that Zen
> is 50--60% faster than Piledriver, octo-core Zen was behind quad-core Skylake on the game.
I'd just like to point out that, baring causal gaming, most people play on an XBox or Playstation so actually do play games on octo-cores. Most modern AAA games are written for an octo-core system with PC support frequently tacked on as an afterthought and now that graphics drivers are moving to multi-threading I think that 8 cores or 4 SMTed cores will probably be the best gaming configuration going forward.
