Interesting fact about Bulldozer fx8350 vs i5 2500K

In 2012 with 1080p, i5 2500K pull ahead with 10.4% more fps using GTX 680.
In 2017 with 1080p, fx8350 pull ahead instead with 10% more fps using GTX Titan (Pascal)

These shows that modern games and gpus will using more cores in future.
But bear in mind, it took 5 years for this to happen.

He also mentioned about cpu bottleneck, the one which get bottlenecked is i7-7700K itself.
But for Ryzen, its not cpu bottleneck, it due to programming bottleneck, since cpu still have plenty of headroom.

And in the end, Ryzen still delivered almost same performance in 4k/1440p ultra preset and superior min fps than its counterparts.
But one thing for sure good for all of us is that AMD will try to drive the 4 cores become mainstream and we will have to wait and see in few more months.



This post has been edited by alokin: Mar 7 2017, 07:50 AM

Personally i think getting into z370 will be very bad choice. Eurocom already spill the beans that Mid 2018 Intel will rollout new chipset z390. And many people suspects its for Ice Lake, until now no one know whether low end ice lake chips will support z370 or not, so you could end up only coffee lake processor can support z370, another guesses is that z390 only for high end ice lake processor, so lower end ice lake still gonna to use z370. So if latter is the case, ice lake i5 probably will be 6c/12t and use z370 and as for z390 already confirm will support 8c/16t.

I'm not saying coffee lake is bad, actually for gaming, its the king now. Even i5 8400 slightly better than i7 7700k. Just want to point out this coffee lake was a rush rollout, waiting for z390 and only decide will be much viable choice.

yea, thermal paste really was a huge drawback, shame on Intel.

mansooriqbal, wise choice on am4, you can skip zen 2 and still able hop on zen3 bandwagon using your old am4 board.