AMD Zen + direct x 12.....

[nathanielbaz]

This is my thoughts about the zen.

Since directx12 is around the corner with windows 10 it makes sense that AMD are making a 16 core CPU because direct 12 is supposedly meant to take advantage of more cores so it may be AMDs chance to out do Intel for once.

[cesrai]

This is my thoughts about the zen.

Since directx12 is around the corner with windows 10 it makes sense that AMD are making a 16 core CPU because direct 12 is supposedly meant to take advantage of more cores so it may be AMDs chance to out do Intel for once.

That's a server APU so never dream of it.

[Goldensapling]

I'm an AMD fanboy myself, but I just don't see any game utilizing 16 cores. It's a miracle if games even use 4 cores let alone 16, even with DX12. I know it hurts, but just let it out ;_;

[Blebekblebek]

just because the machine has more power if driver can't handle it, then it will be useless.

 

so until major software start optimizing for multicore processor, we won't know until then.

[IMPERIUS]

I'm an AMD fanboy myself, but I just don't see any game utilizing 16 cores. It's a miracle if games even use 4 cores let alone 16, even with DX12. I know it hurts, but just let it out ;_;

Many games use 6 cores, even bf3 did

[Glenwing]

It's a SERVER chip, why the heck is everyone talking about DX12 and games...?

[Megahurt]

Even in DX12, there will be diminishing returns with each additionnal core, I don't think 16 would make much impact on gaming, in draw call benchmarks, even a single core did better than any cpu in DX11, cpu landscape shouldn't change that much.

[Humbug]

Those massive core counts are required in the server world so AMD has to make those chips. Not to play battlefield.

Also note that Vulkan and directX12 not only improve multithreading, they also greatly reduce the overhead in general, drivers will be much thinner. This means that even a dual core CPU will perform much better in games than what it does now.

Having massive core counts will not be practically useful in gaming. Because for example an fx-8350 with the new APIs will already be able to serve more than enough draw calls to serve even the fastest GPUs for the next few years. So the bottlneck will be well and truly on the GPU already. In such a scenario moving up further to 16 core serves no benefit in real gaming loads, only in synthetic benchmarks.

[sgloux3470]

This is my thoughts about the zen.

Since directx12 is around the corner with windows 10 it makes sense that AMD are making a 16 core CPU because direct 12 is supposedly meant to take advantage of more cores so it may be AMDs chance to out do Intel for once.

 

No, because you'll reach the GPU Bottleneck point far before you need 16 cores of anything.

 

More cores won't increase performance once you reach the GPU limit, which will be reached with 4 core anything for a long time.