11-21-2017, 06:13 AM -
I'm in a market for a new CPU and having it run RPCS3 reasonably well is one of my main priorities. Unfortunately, benchmarks I've come across are scarce and the information in similar threads are often contradicting. So I wanted to ask a few questions regarding cpu specs and their effect on emulation performance:
1)I know that RPCS3 scales with cores and threads, but how much? Does it scale beyond 8 cores?
2)How useful is Hyperthreading? I.e. would 8/16 net better results than 8/8 at the same clocks?
3)Is L3 cache important? Intel i5s have 1.5MB of L3 vs 2MB on i7, does it affect performance?
4)Skylake-X supports AVX-512,does it provide any benefit?
Right now I'm choosing between 8600K and 8700, and I'm really curious which would suit me better (6/6@~5Ghz vs 6/[email protected]).
1)I know that RPCS3 scales with cores and threads, but how much? Does it scale beyond 8 cores?
2)How useful is Hyperthreading? I.e. would 8/16 net better results than 8/8 at the same clocks?
3)Is L3 cache important? Intel i5s have 1.5MB of L3 vs 2MB on i7, does it affect performance?
4)Skylake-X supports AVX-512,does it provide any benefit?
Right now I'm choosing between 8600K and 8700, and I'm really curious which would suit me better (6/6@~5Ghz vs 6/[email protected]).