I think you need to send grandma a new photo , preferably this one 😁 <| sep |> screen to bell inc <| sep |> Cowboys fans yes <| sep |> Those are pretty fucking huge differences on minimum fps and average for a CPU . Which is my entire point in the argument people make that the cpu doesn ' t matter when it very clearly plays a role in performance . Then you have games like Fallout 4 bench 2182 fallout 4 c p u b e n c h m a r k hugeperformancedifference again big difference . And in games that are designed on next generation engines unreal 4 you have very clear optimizations for more cores gearsofwar 4 benchmarkspage 4 . html And given that UE 4 is the cheapest engine to use for dev work , is the next version of one of the most used engines in gaming It ' s pretty clear that titles are moving towards multicore optimizations and since both of the consoles have 8 cores , microsoft is pushing the unified gaming platform shit that makes it easy to have games on both windows and xbone with a single purchase . I think it makes a lot of sense to buy more cores within reason . And I really really fucking hope Zen isn ' t a meme cpu .