Lab501 has broken the embargo and leaked some new gaming benchmarks for Intel’s upcoming CPUs, the Intel Core i7 8700K and the Intel Core i7 8600K. Lab501 has tested six games and according to their findings, there is not that big of a performance difference between the 7700K and the 8700K (despite the fact that the 8700K is slightly faster in most cases).
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
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A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
The 8600k is an i5 dawg...
Yeah you wont be seeing a difference in terms of gaming with these. Maybe like a 2%-3% increase in frames compared to the 7700k.
Games do not use all those threads. The benefits you are going to seeing with 6c/12t is when you plan to encode and game at the same time on the same pc. Even then you won't see the full benefit of those threads. To get the most out of your 12 threads you going to have be doing something more optimized such as CC or Virtualization. But even CC sees diminishing returns after so many threads as the software isn't optimized for anything more than like 8 threads (at least going from my experience).
Really its a toss up on what software providers plan to do. Whether to release updates to support heavier threaded work, or do complete rewrites. Now that both Intel and AMD offer mainstream processors with >4 threads software providers are going to have to advantage of it. Which is a good thing. Divide the work over more cores/threads, means no need to overwork each core(lower frequencies) to meet the same performance, better overall efficiency (lower TDP) due to lower clocks. You can thank AMD for Intel to finally change things up and offer us more cores instead of brute forcing better performance with higher and higher clocks like they have been doing since 2011.
AMD is really ahead of the game in the tech department as they are the only one using MCM designed processors atm (Ryzen and soon to be Navi) with Nvidia (Volta) and Intel(Cannon/Ice Lake?) still trailing behind. MCM > Monolithic for better yields, efficiency, and better pricing for the end consumer.