Nvidia's technical marketing director Tom Petersen had a go at Intel, after he saw some Intel marketing that claimed a Core i7 920 CPU would boost gaming performance by 80 percent, compared to... something.
Anyway, Petersen says Intel's claim is based on 3DMark Vantage's CPU score alone, and that it makes no sense whatsoever. He says the benchmark "doesn't actually measure anything about game performance," and claims Intel is being a "little disingenuous."
He then compares a Core i7 based machine with a GTS 250 to a Hummer truck, saying it "has got to be big, and it's got to be expensive and of course it's infused with Hafnium, which is kind of a dig at Intel." He goes on to compare the performance of the Hummer PC to a dual-core with a GTS250 SLI setup, dubbed Beamer, which offers more graphics muscle.
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why not buy the hummer today and keep it for a good few years, running everything fine, rather then having to upgrade the beamer next year?
and the battle between Nvidia vs Intel continues... ;-0
But when I load up Empire: Total War it gives me the "Runs Great on i7" logo ;)
Oh so is that why EVERY single gaming benchmark has the three i7's as the top 3 best? Because it's a waste of money? Awesome. Maybe I'll go waste some more money tonight on a nice steak instead of buying the big mac value meal.
It's not a matter of the Core i7 flagship in question, but the focal point of where to put the extra cash. For a game like Crysis, an E4400 or even a E8400 is good enough and well within reasonable spending. However the GFX is what's going to make Crysis either swim or sink and with that, the extra $200-$300 premium should go into a good GFX card.
http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-... - If someone checks out the Maximum PC Article about building a $500 Rig, the only high-end component is undoubtedly the GFX Card(ATI HD4870) because most PC games are graphics-intensive and very few games ever take advantage of multi-threaded quad-core processors.
Pairing a Core i7 975 with an 8800GT ISN'T going to get 30+ FPS on Crysis @ 14x9.
Pairing a Core2Duo E4400 with a GTX 275 IS going to get 30+ FPS on Crysis @ 14x9.
A smart PC gamer knows how to find the balance in components to ensure that one component isn't bottlenecking the other or overcompensating too much. Why have a Core i7 when the 8800GT can't process that much data at once? Likewise, why have a GTX 275 when the E2160 can't feed enough data to the GFX card?
The article may slant in Nvidia's favor, but it's got a good point regarding which of the "Big 3" is more important in getting a good framerate in PC gaming.