Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs
by TylerE on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:36PM
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I would say not just SOME but MOST, if you look at recent releases. As of PS4/XB1 single threading isn't really viable for an AAA title. PC ports are generally seeing the benefits of that.
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People have been saying that for 5 years (which is, in fact, how long XB1/PS4 have been on the market). Single-threaded performance is still the dominant factor in gaming performance.
Games make use of up to 6 threads, but single-threaded performance still determines overall framerate to a large extent. Games are not exempt from Amdahl's law: as long as you've got enough threads to offload work, it comes down to the single-threaded portion of the workload. The faster you can run the main game loop the faster the game runs.