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> Gone are the days when gamers only cares about single core performance Unfortunately that's not true. I closely follow popular hardware subreddits (which ar

> Gone are the days when gamers only cares about single core performance Unfortunately that's not true. I closely follow popular hardware subreddits (which are disproportionally gaming oriented) and read a fair share of comments every day. The old mentality is still prevalent. The limit gamers care for multi-core is the # of cores game consoles use. People still happily recommend a 4-core CPU over a 6-core CPU with ever-so-slightly-lower ST performance for new builds.

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
I'm not meaning by my comment to say that every person in the world is fully informed. However this knowledge about multicore scaling is starting to trickle through the community. It is only in the last few years it has started to be valuable to have more cores for AAA action games, so it is understandable to have outdated knowledge.
gameswithgo 6y ago
>People still happily recommend a 4-core CPU over a 6-core CPU with ever-so-slightly-lower ST performance for new builds. and that is reasonable if you are focused on the bulk of games available today, and not next year or 5 years from now, and you don't want to do any streaming while gaming.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
  My whole point was that AAA games coming out today can utilize more than the traditional one or two cores -- more than four even. I'm not sure if it applies to all games but if someone is playing a CPU-intensive game today, the most likely candidate is Warzone, and that thing can put the hurt on eight cores at once. Likely other modern FPSes do also, or will in the very near future. The only reason to get a new CPU is to play new games, as any decent CPU can run anything older than say three years. If you're buying a CPU for today's games, more cores will tend to help at least among enthusiast CPUs. It is not good advice to forego a large fraction of cores for a small increase in single-thread performance, at least at a given price. Threadrippers are probably not needed though.

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago

I'm not meaning by my comment to say that every person in the world is fully informed. However this knowledge about multicore scaling is starting to trickle through the community. It is only in the last few years it has started to be valuable to have more cores for AAA action games, so it is understandable to have outdated knowledge.

gameswithgo 6y ago

>People still happily recommend a 4-core CPU over a 6-core CPU with ever-so-slightly-lower ST performance for new builds. and that is reasonable if you are focused on the bulk of games available today, and not next year or 5 years from now, and you don't want to do any streaming while gaming.

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
My whole point was that AAA games coming out today can utilize more than the traditional one or two cores -- more than four even. I'm not sure if it applies to all games but if someone is playing a CPU-intensive game today, the most likely candidate is Warzone, and that thing can put the hurt on eight cores at once. Likely other modern FPSes do also, or will in the very near future. The only reason to get a new CPU is to play new games, as any decent CPU can run anything older than say three years. If you're buying a CPU for today's games, more cores will tend to help at least among enthusiast CPUs. It is not good advice to forego a large fraction of cores for a small increase in single-thread performance, at least at a given price. Threadrippers are probably not needed though.