PC upgrade with DCS in mind. Which processor?

Hi.

I am currently at work upgrading my PC for DCS 2.5 and at the moment I am looking into which processor that would be most suited for the new DCS.

I know that the earlier versions of DCS mostly used the processor for everything. I.e. computing, calculations and graphics. But how important is the processor for DCS today with the new 2.5?

I'm either going to purchase the i5 8600K or the i7 counterpart. But would the difference in price even make a significant bump in FPS or is the difference so insignificant that it wouldn't even matter?

Thank you for the help! :thumbup:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=213951

read my posts in that thread, basically answers your questions...and likely throws up more questions than you asked.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=213951

 

read my posts in that thread, basically answers your questions...and likely throws up more questions than you asked.

Well I have I7-8700-k though have to say I cant say I really notice the difference between stock and overclocked. I think after a certain point it's a case of dimminishing returns.

I have an olde-school set of Xeons that do just fine at ~3.4GHz, CPU clock speed rather than core-count appears to be more important with DCS, though it won't hurt.

Once Vulkan API gets Incorporated, you can expect greater performance with multiple cores.

I think the whole focus on higher clockspeeds over core count has really held back gaming and other application performance over the last several years.

Once core count benefits the masses, you'll see AMD processors dominating gaming performance benchmarks.

Maybe get a Threadripper 2 with 16 cores.

Also, you get more PCIe lanes with Threadripper, so you'll have capability for more GPUs at 16x speeds. With Vulkan, additional GPUs will have performance gains realized.

Due to Ryzen breathing down the neck of intel, intel are going to be releasing their 8 core coffee lake variant and I think they will rebrand the z370 chipset z390 which will have better usb3.1 support by beginning of fall. I think it will be the 8800k. Not sure about the clock speeds but i'm guessing 4.5. it'll still be on 14nm. intel pretty much maxed out the thermal constraints on this die so I wouldn't expect any speed greater than 4.5 - 4.6. In any case, it'll be an 8core coffee lake to compete with the ryzen 8 core offerings. It also might have 24 lanes instead of 20. If you're in a rush I'd buy a 2700x now, but if yoiu can wait for this 8core coffee lake, I'd wait just a bit longer.

Due to Ryzen breathing down the neck of intel, intel are going to be releasing their 8 core coffee lake variant and I think they will rebrand the z370 chipset z390 which will have better usb3.1 support by beginning of fall. I think it will be the 8800k. Not sure about the clock speeds but i'm guessing 4.5. it'll still be on 14nm. intel pretty much maxed out the thermal constraints on this die so I wouldn't expect any speed greater than 4.5 - 4.6. In any case, it'll be an 8core coffee lake to compete with the ryzen 8 core offerings. It also might have 24 lanes instead of 20. If you're in a rush I'd buy a 2700x now, but if yoiu can wait for this 8core coffee lake, I'd wait just a bit longer.

Still would want more lanes off the CPU though. Going through DMI is an unnecessary bottleneck.

Still would want more lanes off the CPU though. Going through DMI is an unnecessary bottleneck.

100% !!

Vulkan will separate the boys from the men, aka Intel from true workhorses, like TR4.

DMI sux, but many are not that tech savvy to get what that means in the full scope.

AIB's are usually a no-go, for sure no high-end card

Is there an upper core count limit for vulkan? or is this also limited on the side of game developer (for the rendering part, not speaking of the game logic).

Is there an upper core count limit for vulkan? or is this also limited on the side of game developer (for the rendering part, not speaking of the game logic).

Right now, we just don't know.

Chances are that it's going to be dependent upon effort from ED to make it happen.