Coffee lake i5 or i7 for project cars 2

Audherbagn · October 5, 2017

I am planning on building a system for playing Project cars 2, and I am unsure which CPU I should buy (coffee lake i5, or i7). I also need the higher clock speeds of intel for other applications, so Ryzen is out of the question. If you have a CPU with at least 12 threads, and project cars 2, can you test to see how much performance you lose switching between 6 and 12 threads? for reference I will be running triple monitors on a 1080ti.

Thanks in advance!!

ashypanda · October 5, 2017

that those resolutions, you're going to be more GPU dependant than CPU. and if it's only going to be used for PC2, the 8600K will be fine.

Shiv78 · October 5, 2017

2 minutes ago, ashypanda said:

that those resolutions, you're going to be more GPU dependant than CPU. and if it's only going to be used for PC2, the 8600K will be fine.

I'd go 8700K as the 1080 Ti bottlenecks on pretty much everything so I'd reduce the CPU limitation as far as possible

Sanctorum · October 5, 2017

52 minutes ago, ashypanda said:

that those resolutions, you're going to be more GPU dependant than CPU. and if it's only going to be used for PC2, the 8600K will be fine.

He never said anything about the resolution.

49 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

I'd go 8700K as the 1080 Ti bottlenecks on pretty much everything

No it doesn't.

OP- no idea. Depends on your budget/currency, the rest of your specs, etc. For Project Cars 2 specifically, it seems to scale pretty well up until a fairly modern quad core. So, last 2 generation i5s are still solid(and out-perform all Risen thanks to IPC), so an i5-8600K, or even 8400 would be fine. That said, an 8700k will obviously be better and it appears that Project Cars 2 will be able to utilise at least some of the 6 extra threads fairly well.

ashypanda · October 6, 2017

9 hours ago, Sanctorum said:

He never said anything about the resolution.

No it doesn't.

OP- no idea. Depends on your budget/currency, the rest of your specs, etc. For Project Cars 2 specifically, it seems to scale pretty well up until a fairly modern quad core. So, last 2 generation i5s are still solid(and out-perform all Risen thanks to IPC), so an i5-8600K, or even 8400 would be fine. That said, an 8700k will obviously be better and it appears that Project Cars 2 will be able to utilise at least some of the 6 extra threads fairly well.

triple display resolutions, anything greater than 5760x1080 these days, and that's getting close to the same pixel count as 3840x2160, which we all know is a pig to drive and with the exception of dual cores, it's almost always bound by the GPU.