Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs
by gambiting on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:02PM
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That's demonstrably not true. A 4 year old 4790K stands literally right next to 8-th gen CPUs in terms of both single and multiple core performance. A rather large leap happened when the architecture moved to DDR4, but CPU "performance" has hugely stagnated. I don't know where you're getting the 20% from but its definitely not the case in the last 5 years.
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As a 4790K owner, I couldn't agree more. I just got around to doing a mild overclock and honestly the chip isn't holding me back even gaming 4k@60fps.
Same here. I'm going to wait for Zen2 before moving on. 8c/16t at 4.5+ GHz will be a compelling upgrade.
4k@60 is GPU bottlenecked, not CPU bottlenecked. It's pushing for 144fps where you'll start to be cpu bottlenecked in eg. Battlefield multiplayer or Assassins Creed. (also having a 4core/8thread cpu helps quite a bit vs 4core/4thread now that games have started pushing CPU limits again, especially with the 1% and 0.1% lows that cause stutter).
I've literally just upgraded from 4670K(4c/4t) to the 4790K(4c/8t) because Forza Horizon 4 was stuttering every now and then, the CPU was basically at 100% load all the time. Switching to a CPU within the same architecture but higher thread support has fixed all issues completely .