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Re:Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD by fomine3 on Monday May 25, 2020 @02:02AM (#23298370)
Core count for gaming is important until it matches to latest console game hard (now 8core, next gen also 8core)
Re:Linus Torvalds has switched to AMD by wtallis on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:08AM (#23299657)
Current consoles are still using low-power CPU microarchitectures, albeit at higher clock speeds than the original PS4 and Xbox One. So it's still pretty easy to match the console CPU power with a modern desktop processor that has fewer CPU cores each providing much higher per-core performance. When the next generation of consoles arrives at the end of the year, the Xbox and PlayStation families will move to a desktop-class microarchitecture with performance per clock that's competitive with retail desktop processors.