F1 2016 PC 6900K BENCHMARKS UPDATE
F1 2016 PC 6900K BENCHMARKS DRIVER

This also lets us know where Zen 2 will be able to improve the most. If all you do is game, then the 1700 may well become a very valid option that will work increasingly better in future games.

F1 2016 PC 6900K BENCHMARKS UPDATE

What this all means is simple: once the Windows update has landed, BIOSes are patched up, and SMT is disabled, an 8-core Ryzen will likely be competitive with a quad i7 in gaming while blowing past it in multi-threaded. unless AMD can adjust the partitioning with microcode, which I doubt.

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These issues will be, most likely, remedied with BIOS updates.Ĭombined you can see, clearly, what is happening and most of the reviews make sense.Ī Windows driver update to treat each CCX almost as if it were its own CPU will help immensely. Gaming can be quite sensitive to memory latency and bandwidth. Memory latency quirks still not worked out. This means that, with SMT enabled, these resources are cut, potentially, in HALF (mind you, these are just queues that impact throughput of a single thread).ģ. Ryzen statically partitions three structures to support SMT: SMT hurts single threaded performance due to shared structure. On Ryzen, that needs to happen ONLY within a CCX, otherwise you will incur a massive penalty when that thread no longer finds its data in the caches of the CCX.Ģ. This means that a thread is being moved around on the CPU - which is normal - so that a single core isn't used more than others. And that is just one example.Causes of poor gaming relative to CPU performance of Ryzen:ġ.

Seems similar to me and we doubled core and thread count. In this test, a 6900K (8c) scored 30830 without and 38015 with HT enabled, a difference of ~23%. In my quick testing, the 7960x hit 103070 MIPS at 16c/16t. That will vary wildly with application and load with how HT works.ĮDIT2: I found something comparable, 7Zip, and ran a quick test. Seeing 90% scaling for HT isn't a typical result in applications, note. I ran Cinebench R20 for example on my 7960x at 16c/16t and 16c/32t and saw more typical ~30% scaling. I think you may be right in some cases, but it will vary by app. I would be interested to see more thorough testing of this theory across various applications to formulate a conclusion. What about cinebench? POV-Ray? Etc?ĮDIT: It may be that application doesn't scale as well or the bottleneck is elsewhere (ram bandwidth, for an example) for that test. But where HT leads i thinks this will eat into the advantage as the higher OC will negate some of that impact.Ĭlick to expand.Id bet that is application specific. Highest stable PC with HT OFF (4.8 Ghz)Īt the same OC (4.6 GHz), the cores ran 8 C hotter with HT ON. On my son's box for example, we have 3 BIOS profiles selectable via profile option option in in BIOS:Ģ. But i think there's one factor that must be addressed.

You mentioned 'game runs at 144 hz' but is this being tested on your Dell S2415H 60 Hz Monitor or something else ? If so, other than AoS, I wouldn't consider the difference relevant.Ģ. I would expect 9 to say 'It depends on several factors.'ġ. So I guess I'm m not living in that world. If i asked 10 people from within my tech circle, I'd expect at most 1 to concur with those two statements and at most 1 to say the opposite to both statements. Much like another axiom 'th whole world knows 4 GB is not enough ' (at 1080p). It is now 10 years since Core i7 processors in gaming! I guess what can i really say in the end is '' know your game'': do research before committing on long playing hours, recording and walkthroughs on your games with your Core i7. What i actually expect now is to see some performance gains from Core i7 hyperthreading just like from Core i3 hyperthreading (which was noted a millennia ago). Seeing as Core i5 8400 beats Core i7 6700K in every modern game i have seen all over the internet benchmarks, i have to wonder is this not only because of the additional two cores of Core i5, but also due to the fact that virtual cores of Core i7 might actually hamper the performance in some games? Because we know that was the case in previous tests. GTX 1080 Ti will replace GTX 780 Ti to ensure no bottleneck on part of GPU will happen.ģ. 17 new games have been added, way more modern in terms of performance demands, and only the most demanding 3 games back from the previous test will be retested per new.Ģ. Not only that, but about half of the tested games showed slight performance decrements with HT on.:ġ. Short story back then was that hyperthreading offered no FPS improvement in any of my tested 21 games. Back in January 2016 i made a test about Intel Core i7 6700K virtual cores performance numbers in gaming.

F1 2016 pc 6900k benchmarks