AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]

Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by outworlder on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:21PM (#24721417)

Simulation is not necessarily 'fringe'. Kerbal Space Program, Oxygen Not Included, heck... Dwarf Fortress (ok, the last one IS fringe).

You are correct that most games don't use that much CPU. Most titles will run comfortably with an Intel I3 from the past three generations or so, provided there are no bottlenecks in the GPU. The CPU will be the bottleneck, but if you are getting sufficient framerates, so what?

Modern CPUs are insanely powerful. Even then, I moved to Ryzen - for the above mentioned titles.

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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by hombre_fatal on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:28PM (#24726468)

I upgraded for Crusader Kings and, especially, Stellaris on large galaxies. Simulations are a great example of needing CPU.

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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by overcast on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:28PM (#24721485)

I run Kerbal and Dwarf Fotress on an 11 year old Xeon, as well as every other modern game with a 1070 at 2560x1600. All the eye candy on. I'm not suggesting running a decade old CPU, but it's completely silly for this presentation to be pumping expensive CPUs for 1080p gaming benefits.

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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by schnabeltierr on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:12PM (#24725385)

The reason why they ran the benchmarks at 1080p is because they want to ensure they are not GPU bound.

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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by pdimitar on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:29PM (#24740024)

I don't disagree with you but I think this AMD video focused on closing the gap with Intel's single-core performance -- and many games are still single-core.

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