Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores

Re:Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores by mhh__ on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:27PM (#31136268)

The types of games I'm thinking about are actually non-trivial Indie/niche games.

I won't name it but there's a simulator game I play thats very detailed but technically just screams like at some point they either didn't know or didn't have time to care about architecture then just winged it so now you have huge amounts of logic dumped into a basically single-threaded program.

I trust game engine developers a lot, I trust game developers in general not all that much - making games has a very tight feedback loop so a lot of them don't sit back and do it right rather than passing "tests" (not that games have tests most of the time).

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Re:Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores by FartyMcFarter on Sunday April 24, 2022 @04:44AM (#31142283)

I see - I think it's my bias as well as seeing a lot of people complaining about AAA performance that led me to reply the way I did :)

Your example sounds like it could be caused by a program outgrowing its initial design and might almost need a complete rewrite in order to improve, which is an unfortunate thing that happens naturally sometimes.

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