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You're always going to come across that game you want to play that doesn't though. I was using a Phenom II X6 1090T at 4GHz until recently, and in games that made good use of all six cores (Dragon Age: Inquisition being a prime example), it held up extremely well. But then I bought Dark Souls III, which relies on a single strong core and ran like hot garbage as a result. It was actually that game which prompted me to ditch it, because it was the only thing I wanted to play at the time and the massive framerate drops in many areas were killing me.
I disagree. In terms of Cinebench single core scores for example, the gap is around 20% (couldn't find a 4.4GHz one, so I'll round up).
I disagree. In terms of Cinebench single core scores for example, the gap is around 20% (couldn't find a 4.4GHz one, so I'll round up).
Nobody's suggesting the Xeon isn't better, but there's not a gaping chasm between the two like you seem to be suggesting. Of course, that wasn't even the point of my post, and I was merely offering my experience that even a "mere" Phenom II is enough to run modern games very well when they take advantage of it properly. I thought this was a nice thread about how older CPUs can still cope in general, rather than the meeting of the Xeon fan club. Of course, a rude response from someone reading what they want to see rather than what was written is what I should have expected in this section of the forum.
What relevance does that have? You said that a 1090T can't possibly be compared to a 5650 in terms of single-threaded performance, and I demonstrated that the gap is less than 20% (even with the Phenom II running 300MHz slower, suggesting the gap would be even less clock for clock). I feel that's at least close enough to be mentioned in the same breath without someone throwing a fit about it.
haha
That's a 2 x gpu run...
