what current game titles get an fps consistency/rate boost from the I7 vs I5? has anyone heard anything about games in development that will utilize hyperthreading/more cores? Thanks 
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thor220
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what current game titles get an fps consistency/rate boost from the I7 vs I5? has anyone heard anything about games in development that will utilize hyperthreading/more cores? Thanks
I think you misunderstand what hyperthreading does. Basically, it splits a single physical cpu core into two logical ones. With this the CPU can schedule multiple tasks per core at a time intelligently. This allows for high utilization of each core.
Games usually do not directly address hyperthreading, this is mostly done through directX. Devs can setup treads through the API but hyper-threading is lower level. DirectX 12 might allow this, as they are going closer to the metal. You can expect any DirectX 12 game or Mantle games to use system resources in a more efficient manner.
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what current game titles get an fps consistency/rate boost from the I7 vs I5? has anyone heard anything about games in development that will utilize hyperthreading/more cores? Thanks
I think you misunderstand what hyperthreading does. Basically, it splits a single physical cpu core into two logical ones. With this the CPU can schedule multiple tasks per core at a time intelligently. This allows for high utilization of each core.
Games usually do not directly address hyperthreading, this is mostly done through directX. Devs can setup treads through the API but hyper-threading is lower level. DirectX 12 might allow this, as they are going closer to the metal. You can expect any DirectX 12 game or Mantle games to use system resources in a more efficient manner.
that's what my grasp of hyperthreading is, it's like having more cores except 4 are there and 4 are imaginary has to do with cramming more stuff into each core by alternating between threads, at least that's my understanding.
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any games which use more than 4 cores, which AAA releases are doing more and more, particularly due to 8 core consoles and of course AMD has 6 and 8 core cpus.
BF4 and thief are a couple of recent examples. don't forget the win7 and 8 are very good at assigning tasks to other threads in the background.
it doesn't matter what hyperthreading is called, the o/s and games see 8 separate cores.
BF4 and thief are a couple of recent examples. don't forget the win7 and 8 are very good at assigning tasks to other threads in the background.
it doesn't matter what hyperthreading is called, the o/s and games see 8 separate cores.
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