Processor Comparison Tool5/2/2021
The most no-nonsense gaming-centric technical channel: Gamers Nexus The most numbers benchmarks for gaming: Hardware Unboxed Best for packaged explanations of basic science behind the components: Science Studio There are others, like Linus Tech Tips, Bitwit, etc, but theyre more showy and entertaining than being about the numbers.What is your intended use for this build The more details the better.If gaming, what kind of performance are you looking for (Screen resolution, framerate, game settings) I have a 1440p 144hz monitor and Id like to run games at highultra settings unless it drops my framerate to below 60.
What is your budget (ballpark is okay) 200 - 300 (Just to be clear, this post is just about the CPU) I can go a little higher if theres good reason for it. In what country are you purchasing your parts US Post a draft of your potential build here (specific parts please). The only thing Ive chosen so fair is the Fractal Design Nano S case, so I figure posting an entire PCPartPicker list is kind of useless. I am in high school and taking an intro to IT class where weve built a computer from scratch, but that was the VERY basics of a computer, and with really cheap parts where it didnt matter if we messed up. I have a GTX 1070 in my computer right now and so Ill be putting that in the new one. What Im wondering is this: I know what cores, threads, and clock speeds are, but Id like to know what they mean in terms of performance, gaming specifically. Processor Comparn Tool How To Compare CPUsI am totally lost when it comes to this; I have no idea how to compare CPUs, let alone choose one. Also, how do I read the naming scheme of Intel processors Its never made sense to me. Appreciate the help 21 comments share save hide report 86 Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by best. Both processors have 3MB of L2 cache memory, both processors have 4 threads, both processors run at a default clock speed of 3.4GHz, however, the Phenom II has 4 physical cores while the i3 only has 2 physical cores with hyperthreading (making 4 logical cores), the Phenom should win right it has more real cores Lets have a look at a comparison using the Passmark CPU benchmark software, here we see that the i3 beats the Phenom II by a pretty wide margin in multithreaded workloads and has nearly double the performance in single threaded workloads despite having the same specs on paper and 2 less physical cores. This is because the i3s processor architecture is more efficient and it can execute more instructions in every clock cycle despite running at the same apparent speed, this is often referred to as IPC (instructions per clockcycle) although this is not really a metric itself. If we were to then take a more modern processor with similar specs like say the i5-7500 and compare it we see that it absolutely smokes the competition because the newer i5s design is even more efficient. Comparing processor performance is actually pretty simple once you realise the specs dont mean anything, you just ignore them and look at how they do in benchmarks. Its a bit more complicated than that when it comes to gaming though as certain games or game engines dont have great multithreading support and will put most of the workload onto just one or two processor cores, leaving the rest unutilised, so a 300 processor with 16 threads and decent singlecore performance could get outperformed by a 50 2 core processor with really high clock speeds in such instances, the trend with new and upcoming games is that more cores is better (up to a point anyway). This is where you really need to target your research, you need to look at upcoming games or recent ones that you want to play, find out how well they handle distributed workloads, look at benchmarks with all the different processors youre eyeballing and then find something in your budget that can cover as many bases at the performance level you want as possible. Id recommend something like an i5-8400 or i5-8600K level 2 Original Poster 1 point 2 years ago Im kind of nervous about overclocking, but Ive heard its a lot easier and safer now than it used to be. I guess Id like to have the option if I can, so I can do it later if I want to. Continue this thread level 2 1 point 2 years ago What happened to the Ryzen 5 1600 I thought this sub was in love with that. Does it not pair well with nVidia or something Continue this thread level 1 3 points 2 years ago Youtube videos from reputable sources, my man. Benchmarks give you an idea of how CPUs perform relative to one another. Just sort the channels videos by date posted, and everything in the last 18 months would be useful to you.
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