ONE AND A HALF HEADS ARE BETTER THAN NONE: THE MATH COPROCESSOR

What makes a PC a “gaming” PC? The platform is, by its nature, multi-purpose. And yet these days, unless you’re into video or animation or really gigantic spreadsheets, roughly 95% of the “performance” in your PC is dedicated to gaming.

And running the corpulent Windows 10, I suppose.

So what is it about gaming, in a fundamental sense, that means you have to spend so much more for a PC that can merely watch those games being played on YouTube? For my money (so much money, since probably 1993 if I think about it) the answer is floating point arithmetic.

Floating point arithmetic is more or less the entire reason your GPU needs to exist. Because real time 3D graphics deal in both very large numbers and very small numbers, games benefit