The CPU does matter a lot at 1080p.
I don't think most people use 980ti SLI at 1080p. No shit you're going to be cpu limited in such a situation.
The CPU does matter a lot at 1080p.
I just upgraded from a 3570k to a 5820k and saw massive gains. I think the 2500k is adequate but outdated. My workflow has improved greatly with the new CPU and a lot of the slowdown I was getting in modern games has cleared up without changing my GPU.
Xeon-only.Anandtech said that Skylake's IPC is on average 15-20% faster than Sandy Bridge and about 7% faster than Haswell. I think it would be best to wait till Kabylake at least. It'll include a lot of new AVX-512 instructions as well as SHA-1 acceleration which may prove useful one day. Or when games actually start making heavy use of AVX-2, that's another good time to upgrade from Sandy or Ivy Bridge.
I don't think most people use 980ti SLI at 1080p. No shit you're going to be cpu limited in such a situation.
Still, it's impressive to see non-theoretical benchmarks where hyperthreading has such a strong positive effect.
Graphene? Yeah, that's a bit of a ways off, though. It seems like we're really approaching the limits of what we can do with traditional x86 silicon processors.
IBM POWER mass adoption when?
They don't have to innovative, they have a monopoly.
They don't have to innovative, they have a monopoly.
Well, at least SSDs will reach price parity with HDDs by the end of this year or so, and GPUs should see a noticeable step forward this year as well...
Of course. Up to 4.4GHz (same speed I'm using on the 5820k now)Did you overclock your 3570k?
I have some exposure to the industry, and suffice it to say, CMOS (on silicon) is the elephant no one can dislodge.
To give an analogy: there was speculation that the industry was going to move onto X-Ray lithography over a decade ago because foundries were hitting the limits of UV. And they're still on UV, because the cost of retooling (and the special materials involved) is just too high.
Moving away from CMOS would take so much upfront capital that no one would be willing to take the risk.
Zen at least is not crazy in regards of single-thread performance.I wonder if AMD can come up with a crazy creative solution or just follow Intel.
Well, small steps, first release AMD Zen.
I have some exposure to the industry, and suffice it to say, CMOS (on silicon) is the elephant no one can dislodge.
To give an analogy: there was speculation that the industry was going to move onto X-Ray lithography over a decade ago because foundries were hitting the limits of UV. And they're still on UV, because the cost of retooling (and the special materials involved) is just too high.
Moving away from CMOS would take so much upfront capital that no one would be willing to take the risk.
For better or worse, guess I'll be sticking with my 2600K for a while yet...
My 4790K will last me years, lol
Could you take an educated guess on what that cist might be?
I guess AMD can finally catch up in performance
Sure but probably with a much higher power usage. So again there would be no need to buy them.
Gaming PCs are crazy environmentally unfriendly as it is. It shouldn't come as a surprise if governments around the world eventually limit the maximum power consumption of CPUs and GPUs. As our resources are dwindling, they have started to impose similar restrictions for all sorts of devices already.