Thinking of switching from Intel to AMD

[alex_123_fra]

posted by accident, ignore.

 

[nikki5974]

posted by accident, ignore.

i read it was a good post should have left it up tbh

 

[teppic]

It's a benchmark optimised for nvidia cards for a game that nobody has. It doesn't even support MSAA, you have to run FXAA. It only appears to make proper use of 1-2 cores. It's not very useful as a general benchmarking tool.

 

[alex_123_fra]

i read it was a good post should have left it up tbh

I mistakenly quoted myself from 2-3 posts up. Post is still there

 

[almighty15]

I should learn to use google to "prove" a claim you have made? Don't think it works like that actually.

That "review" you posted shows absolutely no evidence of decent multi-core/multithreaded performance. Just a wall of text and a couple of irrelevant screenshots. No comparative data although there is a screenshot showing 4 cores being utilised but no idea if that is within game or on the bench or if it even is in Resi6

In the real world, a few of us have now run this benchmark and we are not seeing 70-80% usage in 4 cores. Go figure. Unless they forgot to optimise the bench engine and the actual game uses 4 cores. Who knows.

You have no idea how games work do you? You won't see use that high if the CPU has little reason to go that high....

The game is threaded to at least 4 cores so stop with the fan boy excuses...

 

[alex_123_fra]

You have no idea how games work do you? You won't see use that high if the CPU has little reason to go that high....

The game is threaded to at least 4 cores so stop with the fan boy excuses...

Obviously it seems I have a much better idea than you. The bench definitely isn't threaded to 4 cores. My CPU should have reason to go that high and in 4 cores as it apparently is bottlenecked by this game. Yet it only uses 2.

Now the FX CPUs may well bottleneck a 7990 in this game benchmark but they definitely do NOT utilise 4 cores.

 

[nikki5974]

You have no idea how games work do you? You won't see use that high if the CPU has little reason to go that high....

The game is threaded to at least 4 cores so stop with the fan boy excuses...

the game may well be threaded for 4 cores doesnt mean it uses 4 cores,it uses 2 cores and that leaves some room in the tank for other cpu usage

 

[nikki5974]

Taken from a Resident evil 6 review

 

[nikki5974]

Also with an i7

 

[Martini1991]

I can only conclude that it has been coded poorly/deliberately to utilise less cores on AMD FX CPUs.

Martini and Teppic did you see how many threads were used in your benchmark?

I didn't check.
I will tomorrow.

But I don't think it's a well threaded benchmark

 

[ALXAndy]

It's a benchmark optimised for nvidia cards for a game that nobody has. It doesn't even support MSAA, you have to run FXAA. It only appears to make proper use of 1-2 cores. It's not very useful as a general benchmarking tool.

Even I don't have that one

Last time I played a RE game was RE 1 on the PSX

 

[almighty15]

Obviously it seems I have a much better idea than you. The bench definitely isn't threaded to 4 cores. My CPU should have reason to go that high and in 4 cores as it apparently is bottlenecked by this game. Yet it only uses 2.

Now the FX CPUs may well bottleneck a 7990 in this game benchmark but they definitely do NOT utilise 4 cores.

What was your CPU load?

 

[nikki5974]

my cpu usage for the benchmark was at max 21.1%

when the benchmark program was loading i.e the capcom screens etc it used more 40%

 

[almighty15]

my cpu usage for the benchmark was at max 21.1%

when the benchmark program was loading i.e the capcom screens etc it used more 40%

My 2600k loaded higher then that

Just found some resident evil 5 reviews and even that's confirmed to run on 3 cores...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/resident-evil-5,2409-11.html

 

[alex_123_fra]

What was your CPU load?

my cpu usage for the benchmark was at max 21.1%

when the benchmark program was loading i.e the capcom screens etc it used more 40%

Yes I didn't record it specifically but between 20-30% total CPU load.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Fail benchmark - move on to something more comparative.

 

[ubersonic]

I can only conclude that it has been coded poorly/deliberately to utilise less cores on AMD FX CPUs.

Is that even possible? I always thought that the O/S was responsible for core scheduling? So the software just sees available threads, is that not how it works?

 

[almighty15]

Is that even possible? I always thought that the O/S was responsible for core scheduling? So the software just sees available threads, is that not how it works?

It is how it works but certain people choose to blame the developers or bad coding when they get poor performance.

 

[nikki5974]

My 2600k loaded higher then that

Just found some resident evil 5 reviews and even that's confirmed to run on 3 cores...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/resident-evil-5,2409-11.html

That doesnt show how many cores is used by the game

 

[nikki5974]

Is that even possible? I always thought that the O/S was responsible for core scheduling? So the software just sees available threads, is that not how it works?

DX 9 is known to be limited on the amount of cores/threads it can use