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Toms Hardware Answer's the Gadzillion dollar Question: GPU or CPU?
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Toms Hardware Answer's the Gadzillion dollar Question: GPU or CPU?
Toms Hardware Answer's the Gadzillion dollar Question: GPU or CPU?
the link is here:
GPU vs CPU Upgrade
The question being: What has a greater impact on performance. A cpu upgrade or a gpu upgrade.
This is a very well written article, perhaps it is the best best article at THG since their review of the T-Bird Athlon.
the
test includes 6,7,8 and 9 series nvidia cards, along with dual and quad
core intel cpu's. both gpu's and cpu's come in standard and oc'd flavours.
The brief:
going from a 6800GT to a 9800GTX gets u a gain of about 500%
going from a E2160 to a Q6600 (3.2) gets u a gain of about 135%
(100% being baseline in both tests)
the article goes beyond this 'simple' comparison and shows how gpu's scale with increasing cpu power.
(a 9800GTX goes from a base score of 100% on a e2160 to a 143% with a Q6600 (3.2))
the reverse of the above is probably what gives the clearer picture. how a cpu scales with increasing gfx power
(a e2160 goes from a base score of 100% with a 6800GT to 436% with a 9800gtx)
the article has more benchmarks that would satisfy anyone who loves crunching data.
this includes COd4, Crysis and Area 51 Blacksite.
the
article concludes that getting a better gpu is better than getting a
better cpu... that being said, the cpu must have sufficient baseline power
to feed a powerful gpu (which the article also points out).
the link is here:
GPU vs CPU Upgrade
The question being: What has a greater impact on performance. A cpu upgrade or a gpu upgrade.
This is a very well written article, perhaps it is the best best article at THG since their review of the T-Bird Athlon.
the
test includes 6,7,8 and 9 series nvidia cards, along with dual and quad
core intel cpu's. both gpu's and cpu's come in standard and oc'd flavours.
The brief:
going from a 6800GT to a 9800GTX gets u a gain of about 500%
going from a E2160 to a Q6600 (3.2) gets u a gain of about 135%
(100% being baseline in both tests)
the article goes beyond this 'simple' comparison and shows how gpu's scale with increasing cpu power.
(a 9800GTX goes from a base score of 100% on a e2160 to a 143% with a Q6600 (3.2))
the reverse of the above is probably what gives the clearer picture. how a cpu scales with increasing gfx power
(a e2160 goes from a base score of 100% with a 6800GT to 436% with a 9800gtx)
the article has more benchmarks that would satisfy anyone who loves crunching data.
this includes COd4, Crysis and Area 51 Blacksite.
the
article concludes that getting a better gpu is better than getting a
better cpu... that being said, the cpu must have sufficient baseline power
to feed a powerful gpu (which the article also points out).
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