| vivster said: While it is spreading the load on most cores it still puts the majority of it on a single core. And that, my kids, is why more cores in gaming are useless. |
There is one exception to that rule. Running multiple apps in tandem. Throw that Game+Xsplit+Twitch+Origin+Steam+uDontPlay+Gog Galaxy+Blizzard App+Security Software+Music Player+Browser with some tabs+Background services+Transcode jobs+Other apps over multiple monitors and watch a quad-core chip fold.
In general, games are happy with 4-cores if you aren't doing much else.
I mean. When I first got my Phenom 2 x6, the only video game I was playing was Minecraft, which was happy with up-to 2 cores, but I was still using all 6-cores to it's fullest as I was doing Folding while gaming.
6 cores is slowly starting to trickle down into the mainstream, which means that games should start being better threaded over the coming years.
I think once Intel finally abandons it's Dual-Cores and follows AMD and has it's Quad-core chips as the lowest-end offering, we might start to see the transition accellerate.
Coffee Lake will bring 6-cores to Intels mainstream platform, I would expect intel to expand on that after Coffee Lake.
Could be worst though. We could be peasants with only Jaguar CPU's. :P
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