Do most gamers need the latest hardware or care that much about framerates, or do they care more about actually playing games? I'd suggest the latter.
Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs
by BoorishBears on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:20PM
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Why the false dichotomy? I’m sure it sounds pretty to you but it’s pretty silly...
Do most gamers who shelled out dollars for the top of the line gaming CPUs of their day care about framerates? Yes.
Does that mean they don’t care “actually playing games”? Apparently you think so...
I remember a recent review stating whether you could still use an FX chip for modern games and the answer was essentially, technically, if you only play at 1080p, have a very beefy GPU (which will then be gimped by the FX) and are careful with settings.
The 7700k was getting almost double the FPS in the same rig...
Meanwhile benchmark videos show the 4790k at most 10 FPS of the 7700k in almost every single game tested, and never the difference between playable and never struggling to exceed 60 FPS, even at higher resolutions.