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They're optimized that way for a reason. It'll be a number of years yet for large-scale multithreading to penetrate the consumer market. 92% of users still ha
by ethbro 8y ago
They're optimized that way for a reason.
It'll be a number of years yet for large-scale multithreading to penetrate the consumer market.
92% of users still have 2 or 4 physical CPUs, so 2-8 threads.
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- lev99 8y agoThere is a big difference between 2core/2thread and 4core/8thread. It would be interesting to see more granular data.
- ethbro 8y agoIs the difference of physical cores vs modern SMT that big for gaming? I'd assume given asset size they're already dealing with a large amount of cache misses, and if you're stalling for a memory read anyway then it seems less impactful than on a high-thoroughput tuned scientific workload.