Threadripper gaming performance?...

[TahoeDust]

There is so much excitement for these chip in the enthusiast community...a community largely dominated by gamers.  This begs the question, will these be a good option for someone that mainly uses their machine for gaming?  We all hope that developers catch on and start optimizing for growing core count of the mainstream PC, but how quickly can that happen?  The leaked Cinebench score show awesome multi core performance, but the single core performance is really not impressive...under 150cb in the one I saw.

[Max_Settings]

Nope, these will not be good for gaming. 

[TahoeDust]

1 minute ago, Max_Settings said:

Nope, these will not be good for gaming. 

So why does it feel like it is being marketed towards a community dominated by gamers?  Is that just my misperception?  The picture of Linus holding the Threadripper machine over his head on the front page of r/pcmasterrace made me thing about this.

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, TahoeDust said:

So why does it feel like it is being marketed towards a community dominated by gamers?  Is that just my misperception?  The picture of Linus holding the Threadripper machine over his head on the front page of r/pcmasterrace made me thing about this.

for people who do streaming, rendering, and gaming. 

[Max_Settings]

Just now, TahoeDust said:

So why does it feel like it is being marketed towards a community dominated by gamers?  Is that just my misperception?  The picture of Linus holding the Threadripper machine over his head on the front page of r/pcmasterrace made me thing about this.

It is your misconception. Even Linus in the video he just came out with said that Threadripper would be beaten by a R5 1600 in games. Games don't like many slow cores, they like fewer faster cores. Threadripper is competing with the X299 lineup, which is marketed to power users, people who do stuff like editing and 3D rendering.

[Skiiwee29]

its positioned more at content creators.. not pure gamers... 

[GrayZ]

I love how everyone thinks every computer component is for gamers. computer doesnt mean gaming computer.

[ravenshrike]

13 minutes ago, Max_Settings said:

Nope, these will not be good for gaming. 

The 8 core Threadripper will be perfectly fine for gaming. Apart from Ashes of the Benchmark or competitive high refresh rate max settings gaming, Ryzen is a very good CPU for gaming. Arguably given the tighter frametimes it's better than its Intel counterparts outside those two use cases. It'll be interesting to see avg frametime difference of a Ryzen/Vega system vs an Intel/nVidia one

[Max_Settings]

Just now, ravenshrike said:

The 8 core Threadripper will be perfectly fine for gaming. Apart from Ashes of the Benchmark or competitive high refresh rate max settings gaming, Ryzen is a very good CPU for gaming. Arguably given the tighter frametimes it's better than its Intel counterparts outside those two use cases. It'll be interesting to see avg frametime difference of a Ryzen/Vega system vs an Intel/nVidia one

But the 8 core isn't worth it if you are building a gaming system, it will preform well, but that's not who it is marketed to nor is it worth it. Ryzen does do well in gaming, but as of now the 7700K reigns supreme.

[dexT]

1 hour ago, TahoeDust said:

There is so much excitement for these chip in the enthusiast community...a community largely dominated by gamers.  This begs the question, will these be a good option for someone that mainly uses their machine for gaming?  We all hope that developers catch on and start optimizing for growing core count of the mainstream PC, but how quickly can that happen?  The leaked Cinebench score show awesome multi core performance, but the single core performance is really not impressive...under 150cb in the one I saw.

Did you see the first threadripper bench on hwbot?

http://hwbot.org/submission/3613447_lucky_n00b_cinebench___r15_ryzen_threadripper_1950x_4122_cb

 

[TahoeDust]

3 minutes ago, dexT said:

Did you see the first threadripper bench on hwbot?

http://hwbot.org/submission/3613447_lucky_n00b_cinebench___r15_ryzen_threadripper_1950x_4122_cb

 

Yeah...that is some sick multicore.  I'm assuming that was under LN2?

[dexT]

1 minute ago, TahoeDust said:

Yeah...that is some sick multicore.  I'm assuming that was under LN2?

LN2 on an AMD reference board(no bclk) 1.55V.

[hammer3339]

basically if you're purely gaming and the 'clock speed leak' is even close, waiting for an 8700k or buying a 7700k is still your best bet sadly

[nayman898]

I know this is an older topic, but threadripper does have a Gaming mode that essentially makes the CPU an 8c16t processor to drastically increase single core performance

https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2017/08/10/amd-ryzen-threadripper-for-gaming

[xsimplyjosh]

On 31/07/2017 at 11:24 AM, TahoeDust said:

There is so much excitement for these chip in the enthusiast community...a community largely dominated by gamers.  This begs the question, will these be a good option for someone that mainly uses their machine for gaming?  We all hope that developers catch on and start optimizing for growing core count of the mainstream PC, but how quickly can that happen?  The leaked Cinebench score show awesome multi core performance, but the single core performance is really not impressive...under 150cb in the one I saw.

Makes no sense... threadripper was made for productivity n high end user. To solely use it for gaming is inefficient in terms of cost and power use. A r5 1600 or d7 1700 shud suffice. Save about 2:3rd price