In its latest video discussing Arc GPUs, Intel notes that you don’t need to buy a beefy CPU for your Wintendo gaming.
It’s one of the most basic axioms of building a PC: make sure you have enough CPU for your GPU. That goes both ways, though; if you’re building a gaming PC, there’s no point spending out hundreds of dollars for a high-end CPU when you’re going to slap a mid-range or mediocre GPU into it. This rings true even more now than ever before when top-end processors from Intel and AMD have as many as two dozen CPU cores while games barely use four.
That’s basically the message of the latest video from Intel’s graphics arm, starring none other than the usual crew of Tom A. « TAP » Petersen and Ryan Shrout. Titled « Balanced Builds, » it presents some data to suggest that folks building with Arc A7-series graphics cards—that’s the A770 and A750, in case you didn’t know—are probably best-served iwth Core i5 or Core i7 processors, while folks who are keen to buy a Core i9 should shop elsewhere.
The blue team’s boys didn’t exactly say that in the presentation, but that’s what’s implied by one of the charts that comes up. Essentially, when recommending « the right CPU for the right GPU, » Intel tacitly acknowledges that its own Arc A770 GPU isn’t powerful enough to really make use of a Core i9 CPU.
As amusing as that is, the data presented later in the video is much more interesting.
