Why Benchmarking CPUs with the GTX 1080 Ti is NOT STUPID!

[gavinh87]

This should silence a few people around here. He gets my point across a lot better than myself.

 

[gavinh87]

Does anyone here fundamentally disagree with the video?


I'm just wondering why the high-minded soapbox mentality of that ^^^^

Because for the past 12 months I've had people come at me with comments like nobody uses a 1080ti to play at 1080p.
Completely missing the point.

 

[gavinh87]

The £5000 DIY console PC running 1080P thread is back. Yay

Nobody would expect you to get it, a potato could push that 290

 

[gavinh87]

True, I saw couple of game benchmark reviews these days, and the 4 cores were eating dust. The performance drop over 6 or 6/12 was huge.
And we are talking about Intel CPUs tested.

Quads are dead, I think we can all agree on this.

 

[gavinh87]

q6600 was launched back in 2007 - quadcore. It took 10 years, until 2017, for quadcore to be surpassed in mainstream desktop scenarios, by hex cores and above.

It took 1 year to move from hexcore to octacores to 16 cores and above, for mainstream desktop scenarios.

Developers WILL utilise more cores sooner than later.

I agree, but by the time these 8 core cpus will be necessary. They will be far outdated by newer fast ones. We've got to start somewhere though.

 

[gavinh87]

Reading back a little. The old chestnut of quad is fine etc.

I've got a rig here, Titan x (Maxwell) 32gb @2666 with a 5960x installed. If you want me to do some benches with a 5930k in the same rig I will. I've gotta good few games to choose from.

That would be interesting, same clockspeed?

 

[gavinh87]

Out of pure hilarity, I might actually test my new (to me) 1080Ti in the "retro" Core 2 Quad system I am building (QX6850 based).

Should be a laugh seeing how much (or not...?!) it bottlenecks in a mixture of titles (compared to my 8700K).

I am going to hasten a guess that the answer will be between, "quite a lot" and "lol, oh dear". Happy to be surprised though.

Every single game I'm guessing. But it should be fun!