03-05-2017, 11:53 AM
Time index 13:17: "In fact, there's even online evidence of AMD getting their nose extremely out of joint with reviewers who decided to do 1080p testing. AMD believes that these CPUs are directly aimed at 1440p and 4K gamers. Now I'm going to go ahead and call that out as a load of crap, because the more resolution you put into your game, the more you're offloading the load onto the GPUs, and the CPU becomes less of a factor. 1080p gaming is a very relevant test to CPU overhead, because your CPU is tasked with trying to keep up with the massive amount of frames being drawn by your graphics cards. In fact, if you go look at the Steam hardware analytics, you will find that 1080p gaming is still extremely dominant. So that's why we do 1080p gaming, it is talking directly to the majority. But then again, it's also very fair to call me out and say 'Jay, most people with a 1080p panel wouldn't be running dual TITAN X Maxwell cards,' and with that I would say 'you're absolutely right,' but this was a good way to see just how far we can push the FPS before the CPU really starts to become a factor."