CPU Charts 2017 / 2018 - Gaming Performance (Part 1) | Page 7

In this first part, we'll start with the gaming benchmarks and then we'll look at workstation performance in CAD (real-time display), rendering, and compute. Part 1 - Gam... We start with two synthetic benchmarks, but consciously share this category in DirectX11 and DirectX12. In the 3DMark Fire Strike, the core count dominates the physics calculation, which also means that the older, not very high-clockcore i7-695... Similar to the 3DMark runs, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation focuses on the core number, followed by the beat. It is a good example of proper scaling over many possible threads.With Civilization VI help zwa... In Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War III, THE CPU clock comes into play when you have more than four well-scaling threads. This throws the current Ryzen CPUs a little backwards, so intel can dominate. Grand Thef... Under Hitman (2016), the AMD world looks pretty okay here. From a certain basic performance of the CPU (Intel Core i5-8400) the graphics card already limits anyway. However, it is a deliberately chosen example, which shows well,... Far Cry Primal is our second example with GPU limit, but slightly different in interpretation. Since the game copes well with up to 8 threads, but does not necessarily rely on real cores, quad-cores with hyper-threading can also be... The bad news in advance: THE best CPU does not really exist as a general statement, if you include all facets such as application purpose, actually required performance, overall concept of the PC and your own budget. The one for a ...

The bad news in advance: THE best CPU does not really exist as a general statement, if you include all facets such as application purpose, actually required performance, overall concept of the PC and your own budget. The most convenient CPU for one and its needs, however, already exists.

Gaming or Office, Workstation or HTPC? The range of applications and the resulting range of services is enormous and many users have already planned themselves quite a bit before the purchase decision. This kind of thing causes not only frustration and stress in self-construction, but often also financial losses when you have to buy, exchange or replace completely, which does not fit together.

We see that there are a lot of interactions between all the components you need. Does the CPU really fit into the socket and if so – is the motherboard really suitable? Is the cooling performance of the CPU cooler sufficient and if so – does the RAM still fit under the cooler or does it disturb a graphics card in the first PCI Express slot? There should also be experts who screw a huge tower cooler onto a mini-ITX board and only then think about the housing…

Prices fluctuate like palm trees in the tropical cyclone, and every early adaptor puts a lot of emphasis on it. For this reason, we do not want to make price-related judgments at this point for the time being, because both market-standard price adjustments and a rather limited availability (Intel's Coffe Lake-S) make such statements an absolute momentary consideration, the statement of which is only may be outdated in a few days. That's why we refer to the pure results and leave it to the readers to use the price search engines correctly.