Ryzen is for Programmers

Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by tormeh on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:41AM (#14244417)

I have an FX 8350, and I really want to upgrade. Performance per core of the newest processors are approaching 2x of mine. Trouble is, except for Civilization, no game actually needs a faster processor. It's really hard to justify. Processors just last a really long time these days.

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Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by distances on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @07:10AM (#14245435)

Cities: Skylines with large cities benefits very much of a higher core count, as the citizen/vehicle simulation parallelizes nicely. No experience how well it behaves with Ryzen though, but at least it is utilizing all cores on my trusty old Sandy Bridge i7.

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Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by tormeh on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:20PM (#14248363)

The 8350 has no shortage of cores, at least as long as there's little floating point calculus going in.

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Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by ajacksified on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:21PM (#14247736)

I dunno, I just spent a couple thousand on a Dwarf Fortress machine. It's still single threaded :(

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