Skylake and DX12

[allmighty_bob]

DX12 will supposedly be much more efficient at utilizing cpu/multiple threads to help perform gaming performance. 

How much of a boost would you get from upgrading from a 4690k to a 6700k? it's expensive, as i would need new ram and a motherboard aswell.

I could go for this if i would get significant better performance.

[Steinway]

For me personally, it wouldn't be enough of a difference to justify new gear if I was in your position.

 

Also keep in mind that the games have to be optimized for use with DX12 in the first place.

[Guest]

You would benefit because of the extra threads, but you won't see a huge difference in single-threaded performance except for very-specific workloads(not gaming). You would see a similar improvement by getting a 4790k. 

[Atmos]

In games? Barely any difference. The bulk only coming from the higher clock. It's not worth imo

[Alemagno31]

Not just that, take into account, you need to buy a new mobo ,& new Ram... so it´s a pretty expensive upgrade for a very noticable increase in performance. I thought about it 2, but im staying with 4790k, at least for another year.

Perhaps Pascal + new architecture from intel would be a nice combo

[Nena Trinity]

Unless it is a 6-8 core and you are gonna record, stream or something else while playing then nope...

[SteveGrabowski0]

DX12 will supposedly be much more efficient at utilizing cpu/multiple threads to help perform gaming performance. 

How much of a boost would you get from upgrading from a 4690k to a 6700k? it's expensive, as i would need new ram and a motherboard aswell.

I could go for this if i would get significant better performance.

 

There are no DX12 games. How are we supposed to know?

[KamiKatze]

Wait, you need to upgrade your CPU to utlizie DX12? I thought this was a pure GPU dependend thing... Or maybe they are reffering to the integrated iGPU?

[allmighty_bob]

Hmmm. maybe just wait until dx12 games comes out and see then i guess?
I'm still itching to upgrade though. and i've recently gotten some money. i need to spend it before it disappears.

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

 

There are no DX12 games. How are we supposed to know?

This is the only logical answer so far tbh...

So far? Quad core has the best price to performance when gaming... the only reason to even think about an i7 is for multi-tasking while gaming...

Multi-Threading in DirectX 11 has decent performance gains yes... but how do we know if all games will fully utilize eight working threads properly? So far lots of games I've tried? The eight threads sit at about 40% load each on games... so the same as an i5 would sit at 90% load?

... I dunno, maybe I am a little pessimistic... but I highly doubt this trend will change. To me? The development time for eight working threads versus the proper performance scaling will probably be why four logical cores might stay the optimal setup for at least the time being.

Also, I only have an i7 because a buddy needed to sell off a dogecoin rig so he sold it to me at the same price of an i5 new.

[Lanx]

If I recall correctly Mantle made it so that lower peformance CPUs didn't bottleneck as much, to the point that AMD CPUs had almost the same performance as the Intel ones. If games in DX12 follow the same trend, I'd say the CPU power will be kind of "irrelevant" (at least for the 1st gen of dx12 games). Eventually someone will come up with a game feature that runs better on the CPU than on a GPU (AI maybe?) but until then I imagine the tendency will be to move away from the CPU as much as possible.

[Lanx]

http://techreport.com/review/25995/first-look-amd-mantle-cpu-performance-in-battlefield-4/2

 

 

It wasn't this one I saw at the time, but it will do... If you look at the r9 290x average fps, with mantle the a10-7850k became very close to the 4770k in terms of performance. Since DX12 has the same principles as Mantle and the 4690k doesn't bottlenck any more than any other CPU there will likelly be no performance gain (or at least no gain that's worth it) in switching to Skylake.