3 ms·
unless something changes dramatically, single-thread performance will probably not be much better, 50-100% speedup at most I'd guess. on the other hand, game d
by leetcrew 7y ago
unless something changes dramatically, single-thread performance will probably not be much better, 50-100% speedup at most I'd guess.
on the other hand, game developers are only just starting to spread the workload across more than one or two cores. far cry 5 is a pretty unfun game to actually play, but if you look at benchmarks you'll see that it actually gets some decent speedup when you go beyond four cores. ultimately it's still bottlenecked by that one main thread though. if the trend continues, gaming might actually benefit from the current race to cram in as many cores as possible.
a final random thought: I wonder if we will start to see big.LITTLE style architectures on x86 desktop parts. maybe 2-4 big cores optimized for very high clocks paired with 16+ smaller, more efficient cores for parallel tasks.