Looking at those charts is anyone else not that impressed? I thought they were sposed to be "50% faster"? Or am I missing something?
Looking at those charts is anyone else not that impressed? I thought they were sposed to be "50% faster"? Or am I missing something?
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You are not missing anything, the gaming benchmarks are run at high settings -- on a weak GPU (by today's methods) .... all CPUs will show the same FPS, which is essentially what is being shown.Originally Posted by Glow9
One hundred years from now It won't matter
What kind of car I drove What kind of house I lived in
How much money I had in the bank Nor what my cloths looked like.... But The world may be a little better Because, I was important In the life of a child.
-- from "Within My Power" by Forest Witcraft
Ah, hrm.. even so figured those scores be maxed with the new chip *shrug*
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Precisely, if you are looking for a CPU for gaming and that is all you want your CPU for ... then the CPU in your signature line is plenty sufficient. However, if you are a hobbyist who likes to study the fundamental comp sci of the device, and how architectural differences play into the computational result ... this data set produced by this site (gaming results not the others) is worthless.
Last edited by JumpingJack; 10-18-2008 at 10:15 PM.
One hundred years from now It won't matter
What kind of car I drove What kind of house I lived in
How much money I had in the bank Nor what my cloths looked like.... But The world may be a little better Because, I was important In the life of a child.
-- from "Within My Power" by Forest Witcraft
Well gaming is pretty demanding software is it not? I'd say it's relevant otherwise why is anyone going to justify buying one of these if it can't run software better than the last gen.
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They are .. but at the moment (and the 'at the moment' clause is a different debate) games are the only software (with some notable exceptions) that are dependent upon two completely different computational resources ... and the most demanding feature is the visual acuity ... once the complete rendering pipeline moved off CPU, the CPU became secondary to gaming performance ... this happened in the late 1990's early 2000 (1998-2001 ish timeframe)....
The eye candy is what drives the current progress in games, this is solely on the GPU.
However, gaming is not the only software -- and in cases where the CPU is the only dependent variable, Nehalem is showing impressive 20-40% clock for clock boosts.
Jack
One hundred years from now It won't matter
What kind of car I drove What kind of house I lived in
How much money I had in the bank Nor what my cloths looked like.... But The world may be a little better Because, I was important In the life of a child.
-- from "Within My Power" by Forest Witcraft
Where and what? Cause if it's like winzip and some DVD ripper then I'm going to say this is definitely not worth the cost to upgrade lol
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