Id say quit focusing on generations of processors, and focus, like most of us have, on STP performance. SSE3, SSE4, AVX or AVX2 support, minimum STP of 1600, 1800-2k for recommended, 2300+ for best results.. Recommended 2 cores with hyperthreading or 4 cores without. Thats all there really is to that. For graphics.. I recommend anything vega 8 or better performance for amd (and that is bare minimum..., prefer rx 570 or better, especially running at 4x internal res).. or gtx 750 or better performing (so yes, a gtx 690, if it supports the right version of OGL would be fine)
Also understand that not all processors in passmark are quite accurate for stp.
For example...
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu...0U&id=3123
Says my ryzen 5 2500u should be a 1678 stp.. There are less than 1k samples. I wonder if those folks forgot to set the power profile to performance before running passmark...
My system puts out a 1830 plugged in..
Some times we have a bad habit of trying to put too fine a point on minimum requirements.. but honestly, cpu architecture doesnt matter as much as tech supported and single thread ratings.
32 bit vs 64.. it doesnt matter, the program is a 32 bit program. It wont run any faster on a 64 bit system.. so why worry about 32 vs 64 bit... Its purely stp driven. Even the devs have stated that moving to a 64 bit code base would have negligble benefits for a LOT of work..
Also, generation of CPU is not linear progress. Not all 4th gens perform better than all 3rd gens... A 4th gen will probably outperform a 3rd gen of the same position in the product line.. Say a 4770k will outperform a 3770k, but a 4570T wont outperform that 3770k. A 2600k thats been OC'd will outperform a 3770k that is running base clocks...which means it will also out perform some gen 4 processors. None of the gen 4 core i3 procs will touch that 2600 .. but they might actually be able to play quite a few games (like I said earlier, my i3 gen 3 proc did well enough)
And lets not forget our amd brothers (Yo, HI there). My threadripper performs similarly to the 3770. I have literally ran 2 concurrent instances of pcsx2 running ffx-2 off hdd. at 4x native and kept 60 fps. The ryzen 2700x passmark outperforms my threadripper. The threadripper 2990wx actually performs worse in STP than the 2950x. The 3rd gens are talking another 10% increase over that for single threaded performance... Pretty much anything ryzen 1700x and faster will do quite well in pcsx2. The ryzen 7 1700x has a stp of 1800 ish, the ryzen 7 2700x is ringing in at nearly 2200 stp. Perfectly acceptable for pcsx2.
Also understand that not all processors in passmark are quite accurate for stp.
For example...
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu...0U&id=3123
Says my ryzen 5 2500u should be a 1678 stp.. There are less than 1k samples. I wonder if those folks forgot to set the power profile to performance before running passmark...
My system puts out a 1830 plugged in..
Some times we have a bad habit of trying to put too fine a point on minimum requirements.. but honestly, cpu architecture doesnt matter as much as tech supported and single thread ratings.
32 bit vs 64.. it doesnt matter, the program is a 32 bit program. It wont run any faster on a 64 bit system.. so why worry about 32 vs 64 bit... Its purely stp driven. Even the devs have stated that moving to a 64 bit code base would have negligble benefits for a LOT of work..
Also, generation of CPU is not linear progress. Not all 4th gens perform better than all 3rd gens... A 4th gen will probably outperform a 3rd gen of the same position in the product line.. Say a 4770k will outperform a 3770k, but a 4570T wont outperform that 3770k. A 2600k thats been OC'd will outperform a 3770k that is running base clocks...which means it will also out perform some gen 4 processors. None of the gen 4 core i3 procs will touch that 2600 .. but they might actually be able to play quite a few games (like I said earlier, my i3 gen 3 proc did well enough)
And lets not forget our amd brothers (Yo, HI there). My threadripper performs similarly to the 3770. I have literally ran 2 concurrent instances of pcsx2 running ffx-2 off hdd. at 4x native and kept 60 fps. The ryzen 2700x passmark outperforms my threadripper. The threadripper 2990wx actually performs worse in STP than the 2950x. The 3rd gens are talking another 10% increase over that for single threaded performance... Pretty much anything ryzen 1700x and faster will do quite well in pcsx2. The ryzen 7 1700x has a stp of 1800 ish, the ryzen 7 2700x is ringing in at nearly 2200 stp. Perfectly acceptable for pcsx2.
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Custom loop water cooled HP envy x360
nzxt 340 case