Question Threadrippers

[pcslookout]

How powerful of a processor are they ?

Say for gaming. Of course a very demanding game.

 

[Thunder 57]

How powerful of a processor are they ?

Say for gaming. Of course a very demanding game.

Threadrippers aren't for gaming. They can game, sure, but you would be better off with a Ryzen or Core for that.

 

[pcslookout]

Threadrippers aren't for gaming. They can game, sure, but you would be better off with a Ryzen or Core for that.

I totally agree but what about for a game like Cities Skylines 2 or Planet Coaster ?

 

[scannall]

I totally agree but what about for a game like Cities Skylines 2 or Planet Coaster ?

From what I can find Planet Coaster uses 4 cores at the most. So the 78oox3d would be better.

 

[pcslookout]

Never mind.

 

[kognak]

I totally agree but what about for a game like Cities Skylines 2 or Planet Coaster ?

In Cities Skylines 2 thread loading at worst is around 60% with 8c/16t CPU(5800X3D). This means unless you have less than 6 cores(w/SMT), it's all about single thread perf. Buying more cores for idling makes no sense whatsoever. And the game is really GPU heavy in current form.

 

[Ranulf]

CS2's problems are with it needing 10GB minimum of GPU memory due to how its modeling the people in the game. On top of just game bugs in general.

 

[pcslookout]

CS2's problems are with it needing 10GB minimum of GPU memory due to how its modeling the people in the game. On top of just game bugs in general.

I have a RTX 4090 it is still slow with large population cities.

 

[pcslookout]

So would this statement be true?

You could run a very demanding game like Cities Skylines 2 and many other demanding applications instead together with a Threadripper processor ?

Of course it would only make sense mostly if you had dual monitors so you could use both at the same time. Unless it is a application that does stuff that does not need to be actively on the screen. Like video encoding.