Part 1: DirectX 11 Gaming And Multi-Core CPU Scaling

[BorgOvermind]

Conclusion: anything above quad core is futile.

 

[littleleo]

Need to toss in an i5 6500 and i5 6600K into the mix here. Willing to bet the majority of pc gamers use i3 and i5.

For Gaming machines I sell more and quote more i5s then i3s and i7s added together I find it strange there wasn't even 1 i5 in the whole testing. That kind of makes it moot.

Again, an i7 with Hyper-Threading disabled behaves practically identical to an i5, so adding an i5 would be a pointless waste of time and effort.

Some how I don't think that the only difference between an i7 and a i5 is just the hyper threading. And I don't think it is pointless to include the top selling model over the two version that it out sells added together, but hey that is just me. I guess this is more for the pure tech comparison and not real world useful stuff so carry on.

 

[bit_user]

Some how I don't think that the only difference between an i7 and a i5 is just the hyper threading.

Well, there's also clock speed and cache. But since they controlled for clock speed, then the difference is just hyper-threading and a bit of cache. See for yourself:

http://ark.intel.com/compare/88191,88195

 

[memadmax]

Like the other dude said: Take the 10 core proc and start cutting cores out to see what happens.

But there was another dude on youtube that already did it, his vid can be found there(I'll let you dig for it)

 

[bit_user]

But there was another dude on youtube that already did it, his vid can be found there(I'll let you dig for it)

Thnx for incredibly helpful post.

 

[shaaaris]

Awesome article. I enjoyed it. It would be nice if there would be a graph with CPU load across all cores, to see if 10 core CPU is less working than 6 or 4 core CPU or something like that. Of course in some graph you can see that i3 is struggling, but what about the loads across all other cores on 10 core CPU.