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Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by brigade on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @05:56PM (#12265001)
Games use floats and pointers, and I suspect the only floating point bits they use is the 52-bit integer multiply that was added specifically to optimize crypto algorithms.

The integer vector extensions they're almost certainly using I'd argue are primarily designed to optimize various codecs not games; unsurprisingly, crypto algorithms tend to have similar CPU loads to compression algorithms.

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