Fri Jan 11, 2019 1:09 pm by bob
Intel provides more Intructions Per Clock than AMD.
AMD provides more cores and threads for your dollar.
The IPC is hard to beat, however, it is not everything, especially when multiboxing, and I think the TR is more than capable.
So, I think the deciding factor actually comes down to what else you want to do with your computer. If the answer is bugger all, then yay TR. If you are doing rendering or other things that benefit from single threaded performance, then it leans you Intel's way.
As WoW 8.1 became rather thread hungry, then more cores/threads is good, however to get the best from it, I think would require a custom CPU strategy in ISBoxer. Mainly to ensure you are 1. limiting each game to less threads (like 4), and 2. making sure each game runs on a single CCX (not necessarily the same one, so you can utilise the whole CPU, just more so that it's not going cross CCX). This isn't particularly tricky to do, it just requires a little additional work.
As for SLI. SLI does not double your vram. It gives you more processing power at the cost of only being able to use 1 cards vram (actually both cards vram is used, just that everything loaded into it, has to be loaded into both cards vram, so you only get "half"). i.e. 2x 8GB cards only have 8GB VRAM in SLI. The same as 1x 8GB card. You have more processing power to compute what it needs to compute (essentially each card does half the work minus some overhead). Also SLI in WoW is pretty hit and miss (and in most games in general), so if you were going down the two graphics card route, then you normally split them, and have multiple monitors (one driven by each card), and then run some games on one monitor and some games on another, and don't have them swap over to the other (cross monitor swapping when driven by multiple GPU's can inflict performance penalties).