Gaming performance will jump by 10 percent for some Ryzen chips.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Yeah. I actually read a good article last night but didn’t save it.

      7800x3d beats the 9k next gen chips in games, because the 7800x3d has one “group” of cores.

      Next gen has basically double cores, but that means two “groups”. So while for production work, yeah, it goes 2x as fast because it has 2x the cores.

      But for games and fps, latency is the big deal.

      So spreading between two core groups hurts by making additional latency for the two groups to talk to each other.

      Makes me think they’ll be another update to disable one set to remove that latency, or something to split the workload so the groups work on different things and that latency ain’t an issue. Another software fix to get them the same game performance as 7800x3d shouldn’t be hard, would be like how back in the day some chips would disable cores for games because games didn’t use them. They just got to flip off one set of cores instead of individual cores.

      Like, the new 9ks are like a work truck, it ain’t fast, but if you’re moving a truck is what you need to move lots of stuff quickly.

      7800x3d is like a Honda Civic. Less HP but way less weight and hauling capacity.

      Production work needs that hauling capacity, but games is more like running across town with no cargo, it just has to make the trip in the shortest amount of time

      Shits pretty interesting.

      • Boomkop3
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        21 days ago

        I guess those optimizations might be similar to the integration in windows 11 for the Intel big/little thing