AMD's awesome new gaming processor

[ekske1]

I won't say outdated, I'm thinking more along the lines of optimising for available hardware capabilities. Scaling up for more cores/threads and so forth. Good examples are Skyrim/Fallout where the physics engine goes bonkers with a high FPS, or StarCraft 2 that runs poorly on systems with low core frequencies but high core counts (Ryzen, for example).

Having it tied to the refresh rate isn't the same as scaling up or optimising. In fact, it would be neither being a different implementation untying and independent within/from the loop.

 

[ponder]

Which games actually do serious CPU damage?

Many, especially open world games.

Watchdogs 2, mafia 3, assassins creed origin/odyssey, BF5, FC5, GTA5, Cities: Skylines, Resident Evil 7, COD, ANNO 1800 etc

 

[ponder]

I still have an old i7-4970 running with a Vega 64 and my CPU and memory is the bottleneck under many circumstances.

What resolution you gaming at?

 

[Johnatan56]

Having it tied to the refresh rate isn't the same as scaling up or optimising. In fact, it would be neither being a different implementation untying and independent within/from the loop.

Yep, thought our discussion moved to shoddy practices though.

 

[Fulcrum29]

What resolution you gaming at?

1080p. My CPU regularly maxes out in The Division 2.

 

[ponder]

1080p. My CPU regularly maxes out in The Division 2.

Maybe you should max out the game settings if not done already or alternatively up the render resolution with vsr and disable in game aa to give the cpu a break.