Monthly Steam hardware survey analysis

[Zkuq]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Conina said:

It would be nice if they splitted up "4 cores" into "4 cores / 4 threads" and "4 cores / 8 threads".
Instead of "6 cores" a split into "6 cores / 6 threads" and "6 cores / 12 threads".
Instead of "8 cores" a split into "8 cores / 8 threads" and "8 cores / 16 threads".

Many old i7 CPUs (4 cores / 8 threads) are still okay, while old i5 CPUs (4 cores / 4 threads) are struggling with newer games.

Do the cpus report how many threads they have or only their number of cores? Because if not, it might be very difficult to achieve.

It seems to be easy to find out all the relevant numbers, at least in C#: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2670568 It's probably not all that much harder in other languages either, so Valve should definitely be able to do this.

Last edited by Zkuq - on 10 April 2022