News Epic Optimizes Unreal Engine 5 Compilation For AMD's Threadripper CPUs

[Admin]

It appears that Unreal Engine 5 can utilize the full horsepower of Ryzen Threadripper CPUs, with Epic Games VP saying that swapping to Threadripper has yielded significantly faster compile times.

Epic Optimizes Unreal Engine 5 Compilation For AMD's Threadripper CPUs : Read more

 

[evdjj3j]

Shouldn't this benefit Ryzen also if people use it to compile?

 

[Makaveli]

lol Star Citizen

Space X will have a base on Mars before that ever gets released.

 

[GenericUser]

lol Star Citizen

Space X will have a base on Mars before that ever gets released.

I think Mars will be terraformed and fully colonized before it ever gets fully released.

 

[Soaptrail]

Shouldn't this benefit Ryzen also if people use it to compile?

I was wondering that as well.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Optimizing the compiler for compilation performance doesn't mean the app it compiles gets optimized.

This is no different than a factory reworking its processes for efficiency, but they're still making the same product in the end.

 

[alceryes]

Check out the blog post and scroll down to the video of the engine in action.
It looks amazing!

 

[ddcservices]

Shouldn't this benefit Ryzen also if people use it to compile?

The big issue is if the GAMES are written in a way to spawn more threads. There is always the issue of trying to balance what customers may have in their computers and how well the game will scale for those with more powerful computers. We already see times where those with a quad-core CPU whine because performance is too low, because the game doesn't scale DOWN for their low end machine(by modern standards where 8 core is seen as the norm).

In a game where there are a lot of NPCs in the game environment, it would be ideal to be able to spawn one thread per NPC where each thread handles that NPC. You can have multiple threads that go to the same CPU core, but performance will drop the more there are. So, does the game have a way to reduce the number of NPCs that have a thread assigned to them? Some games, such as Cyberpunk 2077, make it obvious where the NPCs can suddenly disappear or blink out based on some game logic decision that too much is going on around the player, but that is the big problem, scale up is easy, but how to scale the game down for those with a low end computer.