Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by Comevius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:46PM (#32826766)

It's probably memory throughput and latency more than single core performance in your case. Factorio is primarily limited by CPU cache misses. It ticks 50% faster on a Ryzen 7 5800X3D than on an 5800X because of the extra 64 MB L3.

Needless to say the Switch won't fare well for mega bases with it's 2 MB L2.

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by louwrentius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:53PM (#32826891)

Wow, that's interesting[0] as I'm planning to replace the 10 year old i5 with something new to run my mega bases at 60 UPS.

[0]: https://factoriobox.1au.us/results/cpus?map=d3c52cb60a225a29...

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by Comevius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:38PM (#32827618)

There will be at least one Zen 4 CPU with 3D cache coming this year, with DDR5-6000 it will be the belle of the Factorio ball.

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by Melatonic on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:50PM (#32827834)

I wonder if I should upgrade my old ass intel 5820k (looks like it has 15mb "smart cache") to the basically just as old 6950x with a whopping 25mb

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by louwrentius on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:08PM (#32828872)

My i5 4670K does like 107 on 6MB of cache. Whereas a modern CPU does double that.

https://factoriobox.1au.us/results/cpus?map=4c5f65003d84370f...

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Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch by xani_ on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:43PM (#32827710)

NGL, performance in Factorio and Dwarf Fortress will probably be criteria for when I will be upgrading my rig.

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