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Here's What It Will Cost New PC Owners To Play Watch Dogs
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AMD Royston doing his PR bit to try and sell those rubbish AMD CPU's. Can't say I blame him but if anyone thinks of trading in their current CPU's to jump on a 8 pretend core AMD CPU is daft.
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Whats funny is Nvidia is bundling Watch Dogs with its graphics cards. Its not an AMD sponsored title at all.
I think the spec is a little misleading...
When ever they list these specs they have to do so based on stock speeds, not overclocked ones.
They are using the term '8 cores or more' very loosely, in hindsight it likely means '8 threads or more' then listing the 9370 as its AMD's highest threaded chip, with one of the highest clocks (along with the 9590 etc..) and the 3930K (along with 3960/3970/4930/4960) as Intels highest threaded chip.
If this game is full optimised for thread usage above 8, as it states, I expect any of Intels recent i7's to **** all over the AMD offerings, especially when all are overclocked. Heck if it really really wants to use as many threads as possible, surely they should be advertising the Ultra spec to be using a pair of £2000 xeons?
What has left me a little perplexed is the use of 'or more' next to 8GB system memory, is this game engine going to be doing some calculations for NASA on the side?
When ever they list these specs they have to do so based on stock speeds, not overclocked ones.
They are using the term '8 cores or more' very loosely, in hindsight it likely means '8 threads or more' then listing the 9370 as its AMD's highest threaded chip, with one of the highest clocks (along with the 9590 etc..) and the 3930K (along with 3960/3970/4930/4960) as Intels highest threaded chip.
If this game is full optimised for thread usage above 8, as it states, I expect any of Intels recent i7's to **** all over the AMD offerings, especially when all are overclocked. Heck if it really really wants to use as many threads as possible, surely they should be advertising the Ultra spec to be using a pair of £2000 xeons?
What has left me a little perplexed is the use of 'or more' next to 8GB system memory, is this game engine going to be doing some calculations for NASA on the side?
I think the spec is a little misleading...
When ever they list these specs they have to do so based on stock speeds, not overclocked ones.
They are using the term '8 cores or more' very loosely, in hindsight it likely means '8 threads or more' then listing the 9370 as its AMD's highest threaded chip, with one of the highest clocks (along with the 9590 etc..) and the 3930K (along with 3960/3970/4930/4960) as Intels highest threaded chip.
If this game is full optimised for thread usage above 8, as it states, I expect any of Intels recent i7's to **** all over the AMD offerings, especially when all are overclocked. Heck if it really really wants to use as many threads as possible, surely they should be advertising the Ultra spec to be using a pair of £2000 xeons?
What has left me a little perplexed is the use of 'or more' next to 8GB system memory, is this game engine going to be doing some calculations for NASA on the side?
+1
A good 3930k will annihilate anything powering one of the next gen consoles.
This is a badly optimised console port ... hence the poor performance and mediocre graphics.
Not to put too much of a dampener on things, but having previously worked for a large videogames publisher the people who write the recommended specifications and associated blurb are generally marketing men with no actual idea or input from the developers.
It's very likely a case of "what's the most expensive PC parts you can buy today?" and someone telling them the next-gen consoles are running 8 cores.
It's very likely a case of "what's the most expensive PC parts you can buy today?" and someone telling them the next-gen consoles are running 8 cores.
Awwwwww
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The biggest problem with APU is their lack of L3 cache. It's been shown that despite that Piledriver is around 10% faster than Bulldozer, the Piledriver APU quad-cores are often slower than the Bulldozer FX4 because of the absence of L3 cache.
So simply put, if you truly want CPU with proper performance from AMD's side, the SteamRoller won't be the way to go...would be best to wait for the full fat SteamRoller instead.
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Nothing to worry about here xD
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Not to mention Crysis 3 loves AMD FX 8core CPU's. I think the balance of power is about to change.
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It's all up and go then...
benchmarks have proven the 8 core AMD chips hold its own fairly well now in BF4 due to much better threaded optimisation. Still wouldn't touch one with a barge pole with budget out of the equation.
Just a bit annoying how this all clearly ties in quite nicely with the next gen consoles. Seems we really have been waiting on the back burner till now.
benchmarks have proven the 8 core AMD chips hold its own fairly well now in BF4 due to much better threaded optimisation. Still wouldn't touch one with a barge pole with budget out of the equation.
Just a bit annoying how this all clearly ties in quite nicely with the next gen consoles. Seems we really have been waiting on the back burner till now.
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Anyone who's used an 8-core FX to it's full potential won't be at all surprised by this. In fact there's enough learned fellas here that know it too, you know who you are, don't be afraid to show yourselves. 
All the FX's need is the software to use 'em correctly, we've known that since we first saw how fast BD could make HD videos. I wonder if AMD knew about the next gen consoles as far back as the conception of Bulldozer.......Intel have been making CPUs for now, while AMD have been making them for the future? Maybe. Almost wish I'd kept my 8350 now, damn mustbuynewgadgets bug.
Anyways, isn't WD going to be an Nvidia game? IIRC they're working on a tie in with Ubisoft that's akin to AMD and EA.
They already do. Where have you been?
All the FX's need is the software to use 'em correctly, we've known that since we first saw how fast BD could make HD videos. I wonder if AMD knew about the next gen consoles as far back as the conception of Bulldozer.......Intel have been making CPUs for now, while AMD have been making them for the future? Maybe. Almost wish I'd kept my 8350 now, damn mustbuynewgadgets bug. Anyways, isn't WD going to be an Nvidia game? IIRC they're working on a tie in with Ubisoft that's akin to AMD and EA.
They already do. Where have you been?