DarkTemplar on 18 February 2013
8 cores (in this case 8 real threads) do not make sense even in a dedicated gaming console.
8 threads can only be properly utilized on things like:
- Multi-tasking operational systems with many of things running in background that don't access the hdd a lot (which may be the case of NexBox and PS4).
- A limited and very specific set of programs/simulations like whether forecast (many computing problems cannot be parallelized).
Also, in order try to properly utilize all the cores in ordinary applications, developers need to spend a lot of time optimizing their loops while trying to avoid problems like race condition. Furthermore, this type of optimization requires many of extra tests since code becomes nondeterministic .
