AMD users beware this game.
From what I understand it would take AMD cpus a whopping 200% overclock to match Intel cpus in non AMD optimized apps and games. The problem isn’t that AMD is bad, the problem is there is zero optimization for 8 cores, which results in AMD cpus trying to compute work loads like a intel cpu would.
I don’t foresee Anet making any significant changes to their engine to make it multi threaded. In fact, one can assume that they believe getting 15fps is acceptable and fine.
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Their will be no special optimization for AMD that would be a major waste of resources and man hours. If you buy a inferior product then you get inferior performance. If you buy a 8 core work processor why would you think it would perform good when single core performance is what counts? For the new AMD processors coming out Intel could not produce anything new for about 5 yeas and still lead in performance.
The new 9590 5gh processors are a joke. 220 Watt draw and 3 motherboards that they recommend ouch.
I have my i5 2500K overclocked to 5gh with a Vcore of 1.27 that’s 137 watts and pretty much this sums it up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo
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Their will be no special optimization for AMD that would be a major waste of resources and man hours. If you buy a inferior product then you get inferior performance. If you buy a 8 core work processor why would you think it would perform good when single core performance is what counts? For the new AMD processors coming out Intel could not produce anything new for about 5 yeas and still lead in performance.
The new 9590 5gh processors are a joke. 220 Watt draw and 3 motherboards that they recommend ouch.
I have my i5 2500K overclocked to 5gh with a Vcore of 1.27 that’s 137 watts and pretty much this sums it up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo
We don’t live in the age of single core cpus anymore, its not AMDS fault that Anet decided to create a graphically intense game that doesn’t take advantage of multithreading.
If AMD cpus are inferior why is it after SOE made planetside 2 multi threaded that AMD cpus equal and in many cases outperform intel equivalents?
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PS2 also runs better on Intel and it’s not to say games only use a single core but more like you see 1 core taking a massive load with the other cores taking less. That’s why I stated the single core performance.
And as I stated above I’ll take my 3 generation old i5 2500K over anything AMD can produce in the next few years.
Out of all the games that are out you might be able to show maybe one benchmark where a AMD processor will beat a Intel i5. With the Intel having a lot slower clock speed.
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PS2 also runs better on Intel and it’s not to say games only use a single core but more like you see 1 core taking a massive load with the other cores taking less. That’s why I stated the single core performance.
And as I stated above I’ll take my 3 generation old i5 2500K over anything AMD can produce in the next few years.
Out of all the games that are out you might be able to show maybe one benchmark where a AMD processor will beat a Intel i5. With the Intel having a lot slower clock speed.
Nope, most games are coded to be single threaded. PS2 was the same. Except until now, thanks to the PS4.
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Anet is still working on performance issues apparently but I do feel bad for the OP. I went from a X6 1055t oc to 3.5 to my current rig and I am glad that I did. Anet really blundered when they decided to use the GW1 engine and modify it instead of using a modern engine that supports threading more efficiently. The addition of DX11 would also have been nice for ALL users but, alas this will never happen as well.
It has been months since we have heard anything about performance and since I doubt that we will ever see a noticeable performance gain anytime soon it is best just to deal with the limitations of the engine as it stands.
I find myself playing less and less and getting more annoyed with the terrible frames that everyone gets in high population encounters(zergs).
The 9590 is interesting for those that do anything but game and I doubt that many of those chips will sell.
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Their will be no special optimization for AMD that would be a major waste of resources and man hours. If you buy a inferior product then you get inferior performance. If you buy a 8 core work processor why would you think it would perform good when single core performance is what counts? For the new AMD processors coming out Intel could not produce anything new for about 5 yeas and still lead in performance.
The new 9590 5gh processors are a joke. 220 Watt draw and 3 motherboards that they recommend ouch.
I have my i5 2500K overclocked to 5gh with a Vcore of 1.27 that’s 137 watts and pretty much this sums it up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo
We don’t live in the age of single core cpus anymore, its not AMDS fault that Anet decided to create a graphically intense game that doesn’t take advantage of multithreading.
If AMD cpus are inferior why is it after SOE made planetside 2 multi threaded that AMD cpus equal and in many cases outperform intel equivalents?
It does take advantage, it just doesn’t do it well, only using somewhere between 2 and 3 cores worth of CPU cycles. There are over 40 threads associated with the game when it’s running but less than a dozen that use any noticeable amount of CPU time and only a handful that use more than 25% of a core. The primary thread uses over 70% of a single core.
There are not a lot of true 6 or 8 core CPUs on the market while there are plenty of quads and duel cores. While some software like video and file compression or ray trace based rendering software can take advantage of how many cores are present but in those cases it’s relatively easy to split the task into X equal parts. The rendering engine for a game is nowhere that easy. Actually downright hard.
Since Planetside 2 is coming out for the PS4 and since the cores in the PS4 are significantly weaker (around 60%) than one of the FX cores so if they want the game to run well on that platform they need to code it efficiently for 8 cores. It’s just what they learn there can then be used to rewrite the PC engine to perform better with lots of cores.
And the engine that Planetside 2 uses, is also going to be used in Everquest Next.
RIP City of Heroes