Is 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,

Is 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.