In continuation,
much of the misinformation comes from for want of a better term, fanboys I’ve seen people find a reason why every product is wrong, simply because it isn’t their companies. I’m sure everyone here is familiar with similar posts both for and against apple products.
However the blunt and honest truth is - a processor is a processor, a GPU is a GPU - and as long as it works for you, it’s fine.
I personally don’t take into account optimizations or instruction sets, as they are subject to fall out of favor, or change beyond the original specification.
A good example of this is Mantle, AMD’s answer to DirectX/OpenGL - while some parts where incorporated into Vulcan, it’s dead. Even though it was heralded as the next big thing and showed some promise.
All that matters in my opinion is the baseline FLoating Point Operation (FLOP) counts - and now it’s time to get UE4 specific.
If you plan on doing anything particularly serious with UE4, it’s very likely you will want to build the engine from source at some point - most likely using MSVC. Microsoft are surprisingly pretty ■■■■ good at staying out of hardware-specific wars, and on the MSVC tool-chain this shows - compile times per FLOP are pretty much identical on both hardware platforms [my google-fu failed, citation needed].
For both editor-use and compiling, more cores are king - thus AMD has a discreet advantage - however there’s a couple more things to consider.
Single core performance has pretty much flat-lined along with clock-speed - and that isn’t going to change unless there is some dramatic break-though in technologies.
As you might expect, this leads to more cores being added - the simple reason we don’t see 32-core processors on the market is - software hasn’t caught up, programmers haven’t adapted yet.
Thanks a LOT for all the great info!! It really helped me out a lot!
I’m currently leaning towards AMD since I have an intel Core I7 6700k in my old pc, and I have no AMD processors yet.
Tho because there is no big hurry I’m gonna wait a few months to see all the new things that get anounced. If they are super good I can buy those, and otherswise they sure will lower the price of other components
I have no further questions atm since you guys have answerd everything!
And yeah, that and a few others like the new nvidea cards, and possibly the AMD TR 2.
Idk if I’ll buy any of them, but I’d rather wait then to buy something now and regret it in about 3 - 5 months from now.
thanks, they helped me with the same problem, it was between the rayzen 2700k and the intel 8086k, finally I decided for the rayzen because I use more lighting cooking as an environment designer.
gtx 1070 with broken fan is it worth of buying and how much to spend on it because my friend is selling? I would put noctua cooler on it. Also is it better to use 1070 than two 960 oc 4 gb ? I have one and I want to buy second one for SLI but it is very difficult to find another same 960 oc 4gb. Now is it ok to put OS on SSD 960 EVo m.2 500 GB? and what motherboard to look at. I have now overclocked 3930k to 4.2 GHz as far as I can see nothing too much beter is on market. I can buy new processor for maybe 30% speed more but price is 150%…
thanks bro for fast reply. I will buy this 1070 if he give me good price. Also I am looking after new year to buy new computer because I am going to western europe and I can take tax free (10-15% cheaper it will be) I am looking these computer parts and I found that i7 8700k on begining was 400 euro than on end of april it was believe or not 280 euros and now is 420 euros? I dont get it is there a month or a day in year that is better to buy these stuff? after new year, quartals, chinese new year xD Also my 960oc 4gb is more expensive than 2 years before, if you find it…
Also SLI does it help in VR and htc VIVE? or generation 10 of gtx is enough single for decent view in VR?
I found that i7 8700k on begining was
400 euro than on end of april it was
believe or not 280 euros and now is
420 euros?
280 Euro for a new 8700k is a great deal. Around 400 now in Europe.
I dont get it is there a month or a
day in year that is better to buy
these stuff?
There are Black Friday equivalents in Europe a.k.a. Cyber Mondays usually in November / December. Prices also drop when a new line of products is (or is about to be) released. One would expect a 5-10% drop normally; with 9900k having just arrived, there should be a small nudge in Intel processor prices.
There are always Christmas / New Year deals to consider, you just need to be vigilant. Google tech deals, you might get lucky. There must something similar to this for Europe:
nothing, he doesnt sell it now I gotta make new config. for new year can you tell me what to look at motherboard and what one would you recommend? It has to have m.2 slot because my p9x79 believe or not doesnt have…
Your question is too broad to answer directly, the motherboard type will be dictated by the CPU type, the amount of RAM you need, whether you need SLI, case size and so on, additional features you require…
I’ve been sending people here for years now, can’t recommend it enough:
Guys I am in pain, I need help. I have overclocked 3930K to 4.4G it works perfect with 16G of ram gtx 960. But I cant put SSD m.2. on my old 8 years motherboard. I use it mostly for 3ds max, unreal, revit and things like that, but this 3930k there is no much better CPU on market 8 years later… i9 is overpriced. I now want to buy HTC VIVE for realtime VR to present projects on it. Real question is DO I NEED NEW MACHINE. Can gtx 960 and this config take stress from VIVE?
I made some config but not sure is it worth it.
-i7 8700K - 420 €
-Noctua D15 -86 € OR 14s noctua 65 € (i have d14 it is great)
-RTX 2060 gigabyte - 370 € OR 1070 8GB asus 320 € ( i need more memory)
-DDR4 I now have ddr3 16 GB and I need more for really heavy scenes
So i am going to 32 GB kit 2x16 LPX corsair but not sure witch speed 3200 - 225€ OR 3000 - 195€ OR 2666 - 175€ I am not sure that I would feel difference between these what do you think.
-Seagate 2t HDD
-have SSD EVO 960 500G laying around desk M.2. cant stick on motherboard
-EVGA G3 750 W -125 € is it big difference between gold and platinum???
Case at top 60€ (realy dont care about look)
so in most expensive case 1500€ but I would take tax free from another country 15% that is 250€ less
Take it or use VIVE on gtx 960?
Depending on your budget, having a PC where you can both develop and test the game without unrealistic expectations of user hardware is a good way to go. If you can afford it, buy a class rig. But just remember you need to be able to test the game on a viable system, something a regular player in your audience would have. Generally something mid-range is sufficient since UE4 has a lot of player options for optimizing performance right out of the box.
well I just got test VIVE™ | VIVE Ready Computers and my gtx 960 is bottleneck. Now I want to do steam test to see SteamVR Performance Test on Steam is it going anywere. I am thinking of changing just motherboard then what about memory, cpu… well one leads to another thing. But If I change GPU and need SSD I will have to buy new one.
Idk why, but it just clicks.
now I gotta make new config. for new year 
