Intel i9 officially announced

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Liquid_faction said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Dumb question but... what do multiple cores in processors even do? Sure an 18 core processor sounds a lot, but how much does it actually increase performance?

Actually relevant to me too, unlike graphics card stuff, since the PC games I play are all processor intensive rather than graphics intensive.

Nothing yet since most games  for pc are optimized to only use four cores, but in the future, most games will have to run on even more cores. Also if you use stuff like photoshop or vegas pro, the more cores the better.

Not even true, some games use up to 4 cores. Other games can't for different reasons and still only use 1 core for the core gamplay.

 

An example of this is Civilization VI. The rounds can't be parallellized since each computer round is dependant of the result of the previous. This game has multiple core support but the other cores only run UI-elements (for smooth navigation during computation of the computer players rounds) but each actual round still takes time to compute since it can only be done on one core.