GPU - CPU

[Paddi01]

Everyone knows that a GPU is always more important than the CPU in a gaming pc, but what are the reasons for that?

Way back like 15 years or so they were almost equally important if im not mistaken.

[3 Lions]

4 minutes ago, Paddi01 said:

Everyone knows that a GPU is always more important

This is true for gamers but for people that don't game the CPU is more important. 

[Jurrunio]

Becuase of the rise of MMO games. These games do the calculations with the server which means load is light on the CPU. However scenery is still rendered by each client, which means the graphics card still needs to be decent

[Naervern]

It's more of a matter of bottleneck issues. Per value, the graphics bottlenecks more often than the CPU when gaming

[23ek1jelkejd10dsslk14]

8 minutes ago, Paddi01 said:

Everyone knows that a GPU is always more important than the CPU in a gaming pc, but what are the reasons for that?

Way back like 15 years or so they were almost equally important if im not mistaken.

I would say that they are kind of equal, because you can have the fastest car, but it will be no use if you won't be able to tell it on time where to turn 

 

if you know what I mean

[Airdragonz]

It's all about compatibility. A cpu needs to be able to support a powerful gpu and vice versa. And games nowadays tend to be more graphics intensive as developers aim to make em seem more life-like

[cj09beira]

its a lot of things, one of them being that we were stuck on 4 core cpus for ages, now we might start to see games use more cpu cores to add more characters / npcs better physics etc.

[Paddi01]

1 minute ago, cj09beira said:

its a lot of things, one of them being that we were stuck on 4 core cpus for ages, now we might start to see games use more cpu cores to add more characters / npcs better physics etc.

i heard this will take 3 years at least that games use more than 4 cores.

It´s probably because most people don´t have more so that more are able to play the games without bottleneck.

[xentropa]

GPU is good for calculating graphics.

 

As simple as I can put it....

 

A GPU contains thousands of "dumber"  cores.  This is good for parallel calculations and for graphics, because you can dedicate certain regions of a "frame" to a single core on the GPU.

 

A CPU contains "smarter" but fewer cores (4 to 6).  This makes it good for calculations that are not parallel.  Booting up a computer is a process that doesn't benefit well from parallelism.

[AlTech]

25 minutes ago, Paddi01 said:

Everyone knows that a GPU is always more important than the CPU in a gaming pc, but what are the reasons for that?

Way back like 15 years or so they were almost equally important if im not mistaken.

For gaming, I'd actually say they're just as important.

 

You need a good CPU and a good GPU to have good framerates and good graphics quality.

[cj09beira]

56 minutes ago, Paddi01 said:

i heard this will take 3 years at least that games use more than 4 cores.

It´s probably because most people don´t have more so that more are able to play the games without bottleneck.

ya it wil take time but it will happen, the reason its taking so long is that the mentality of devs has changed from lets push the hardware to its knees to lets address the biggest audience possible (it more the publishers than anything, but the result is the same)

[Mick Naughty]

Need both to game. Unless it isn’t a cpu intensive game. If my cpus were any weaker I couldn’t play anything except one game. 

[asand1]

14 hours ago, Paddi01 said:

i heard this will take 3 years at least that games use more than 4 cores.

It´s probably because most people don´t have more so that more are able to play the games without bottleneck.

Many games already do. GTAV and BF1 for example. GTA uses all 12 threads of my CPU.