Ok, here we go:
So, what do we have?
Picture 01: 9700K stock / 3080 FTW3 stock / RAM 3400 CL14
Picture 02: 12700K stock / the same
The result is nearly the same ... why is that? Pretty simple: I was bottlenecked by my GPU the whole time, 97%+ workload all the way through. Monitored it with MSI Afterburner + Riva Statistics Tuner + HWInfo.
But here's the twist: I saved 2 scenes before changing my CPU + motherboard and changed nothing to it after loading it with the new system, not even the camera angle. 1:1 comparison.
(2560x1440 in desktop)
Result:
Scene 01: 2 persons (animation on the female, some bouncing up and down), 1 simulated clothing item, 3 lights, 1 mirror + environment
Before: ~64fps (GPU workload around 70%)
After: ~97fps (GPU workload around 98%)
Scene 02: 3 persons, 3 lights, no clothings, simple wooden floor, animation on the male, indirect movement on both females
Before: ~31fps (GPU workload around 40%)
After: ~52fps (GPU workload around 65%)
That is an increase in real-game footage of around 50%! That is massive! I can't see that improvement in the benchmark. And as much as I do like the effort and I really appreciate the work that went into it (I paid one month patreon just for this to macgruber), it makes no sense to me. Like I said before: there has to be more physics-stuff going on. Right now it's more like a graphics benchmark.
I mean a good benchmark for a game that is both, CPU and GPU demanding, has to test both. So therefore I made my own "benchmark" that gave me more information on the real performance when playing. And I can say this is huge for VaM performance. And this proves to me without a doubt, like I think Jiraiya already said: CPU performance on this is extremly important. I can only advise to anyone wanting to improve the performance in VaM: compare the single core performance of CPUs.
Looking at this:
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-9700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-12700K/4030vs4119
... is nearly what I got as an improvement. It says around 40% more single-core, I got around 50% more fps.
Of course I made all testing in 1440p (fuck, I forgot to make a testing on my old system in 1080p with some scenes
). And the lower the resolution the more your CPU has to work. Which also means that with all those VR-headsets having a high resolution the improvement will decrease (fuck again, forgot to make some VR-testing-scenes
).
btw: I don't wanna offend no one with "showing" my new hardware. I also said I under no circumstances would buy Intels 12-series. I lied
I thought you have to install Windows 11, which is wrong. I'm using Windows 10 right now and I will make further tests by disabling all e-cores since I read this will be even better with gaming.
If anyone in here wants me to test anything, whatever, pm me.
I'm gone for some testing right now. First VR use with the new one, I'm excited.