superwonkywookie

"Someone else will explain it better, but basically it's how the cards handle the work load. Core clocks mean jack shit if your card can't properly split the load between cores. Again, not a very good explanation, but that's the basic gist of it." Has Linus or anyone else done a video on this concept? It would be interesting to see this explained in detail by somebody like Linus or Gamer's Nexus. I figured he based his decision on experience, this just wasn't something that I immediately understood the reasoning of.

I watched the Black Friday online shopping live stream last night and I had a question. Linus went with a 2070 Super for around 500 over a 5700 XT. I didn't understand the reasoning behind it. The Asus Strix 5700 XT is going for 449 on Newegg, before a 15 dollar rebate. It has both a higher core and boost clock then the MSI 2070 Super he went with. Looking at the the benchmarks I've seen on Youtube, the performance seems comparable. But Linus made mention that for some reason, the 5700 XT couldn't handle the demand of simultaneous streaming and VR game play. At least, not to the degree a 2070 Super could. So my question is, how does a 2070 Super with lower core clock and boost speeds have improved performance over something like the Strix 5700 XT. I'm considering putting together my first PC build, and the decision Linus made really had me scratching my head.