How many CPU cores do games need?
We've often heard discussions about how hard it is to create good multi-threading implementations for games, but is that still the case with some of the more high-profile titles currently available on the PC? bit-tech checks out just how many CPU cores are optimal to run many of today's games.
For those of you with a dual-core CPU, in most games it offers "enough" performance (at least in terms of core count), although it's clear that won't last much longer. While some developers are sticking with engines that aren't multi-threaded, if there's one thing clear from our testing it is that games are starting to make better use of more cores. At the moment, three cores appears to be what games are happiest using (aside from Dirt 2).
That's not to say that everyone should go out and buy an AMD triple-core though - obviously clock speed and instructions per clock are important, and as we've said often enough in our buyer's guides, in terms of performance, Intel's CPUs dominate.
Check out all of their findings over here.That's not to say that everyone should go out and buy an AMD triple-core though - obviously clock speed and instructions per clock are important, and as we've said often enough in our buyer's guides, in terms of performance, Intel's CPUs dominate.
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