Toms Answer's the Gadzillion dollar Question: GPU or CPU?

Toms Answer's the Gadzillion dollar Question: GPU or CPU? · 18-05-2008, 01:08 PM

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 (FS-X):
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))

Fahad · 18-05-2008, 01:24 PM

So finally now we know that GPU's have a huge role when it comes to performance. Thanks for sharing.

AzeemBhai · 18-05-2008, 01:52 PM

Ram makes more difference than CPU i believe,CPU just accelerates the program in the start then the rest is upto the HD & Ram then it depends on GPU to load from Ram
sheesh i could write much better than TOm

ali.tayyab · 18-05-2008, 01:58 PM

ram would make a diff upto a point. it would probably make for a better playing exp than a faster gaming exp. when i used to play warcraft 3 i had only 256mb of ram. the last level was soo bbad it constanly chugged as it was swapping audio from swap file. more ram made the game a better playing, not faster.

however many games are very sensitive to cpu cache levels, one of the reasons the phenom craps in games when compared to core2quads.

AzeemBhai · 18-05-2008, 02:14 PM

Hm u r rite Ali bhai, I remember when P4 6xx series came out with 2mb l2 cache the performance in maya from p4 5xx series exeeded upto 40% just becoz of double the Cache size

But i believe Ram speeds + Duel Channel really jacks up the gaming experience

kashif99048 · 18-05-2008, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fahad

So finally now we know that GPU's have a huge roll when it comes to performance. Thanks for sharing.

lol...................

and gpu ofcourse is the greatest advantage u can have all the way

mave_3 · 18-05-2008, 03:34 PM

GPU takes it all.
but to feed the GPU..
u need a powerful.....CPU..
that is soo true..
but the overall impact of the GPU is more than the CPU.
thats the main case..
which has been explained here..!!!

OmMeE · 18-05-2008, 03:40 PM

All in all... The CPU GPU n RAM.. all just have to work together.. so all have a huge roll....!!

fraz · 18-05-2008, 03:44 PM

looks to be a very good and rare article ... i will read the whole original article
later ... i was looking for something like this thanx for sharing ...

RovingCalypso · 18-05-2008, 05:28 PM

Yea, ram has an imp role to play but it doesnt really come in with the CPU vs GPU bit considering that ram is pretty cheap.

18-05-2008, 01:08 PM	#1
Toms Answer's the Gadzillion dollar Question: GPU or CPU? ali.tayyab Moderator Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Islamabad Posts: 5,752 ali.tayyab 18-05-2008, 01:08 PM Rating: () 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 (FS-X): 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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