drhycodan Wrote:Don't most games these days only utilize two cores also? Only a few actually take advantage of quad core, correct?
Yes. And even fewer use 6-8 cores. Many people are quick to dismiss this as either some type of global conspiracy against AMD or widespread developer laziness/incompetence. But in most cases the devs don't really have anything that they could put on these additional threads that would impact performance significantly so they just don't bother. Plus very few users have 6+ core cpus. This will likely change next gen. due to the structure of their SoCs. Devs will likely build more complex audio, physics, and AI engines in response. But since those SoCs have such slow cores a quad core haswell with only 4 threads is still going to be more than fast enough to handle these engines.
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-Mark Antony