By: Exophase (exophase.delete@this.gmail.com), May 15, 2013 6:43 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
RichardC (tich.delete@this.pobox.com) on May 15, 2013 3:26 am wrote:
> The conclusion at that link "Hyperthreading neither helps nor hurts when gaming".
> It wins a few, it loses a few.
The idea isn't to take an average over several games from several years, but to show that there are games that do in fact benefit even from HT at 4C (I guarantee that the effect would be far more pronounced at 2C). Or by using a processor at stock clock speed instead of overclocked to 4.4GHz.
The conclusion is that newer games tend to benefit more. Even where HT hurts older games it tends to be mostly in maximum framerate, having little impact on average and even positive impact on minimum, which would tend to be what you'd prefer. Since older games usually have lower minimum requirements to begin with their performance deltas should matter less even if that's what you prefer to play.
> The conclusion at that link "Hyperthreading neither helps nor hurts when gaming".
> It wins a few, it loses a few.
The idea isn't to take an average over several games from several years, but to show that there are games that do in fact benefit even from HT at 4C (I guarantee that the effect would be far more pronounced at 2C). Or by using a processor at stock clock speed instead of overclocked to 4.4GHz.
The conclusion is that newer games tend to benefit more. Even where HT hurts older games it tends to be mostly in maximum framerate, having little impact on average and even positive impact on minimum, which would tend to be what you'd prefer. Since older games usually have lower minimum requirements to begin with their performance deltas should matter less even if that's what you prefer to play.