htt/smt affect on gaming?
https://youtu.be/a8yXqsfXWcM?t=7m55s
or
and skip to 7:55
Also note how cinebench skews the affect which is why I always said its not a reasonable test to assess gaming performance impact.
I do accept that low core "and" low threaded chips in "certian" games can have min fps issues tho due to nvidia's dx11 threading model.
His test is GPU bottlenecked. Using 1440p with GTX1080Ti on 3 games that hit the card hard, and then used 1080p on Metro, which even RTX2080Ti would have hard times.
He doesn't say if using DX11 or DX12 also. On top is using Time Spy not Firestrike, which is greatly affected by CPU.
However when he compares AMD vs Intel on videos is using, for the last 8 months, an overclocked RTX2080Ti and low resolutions like 1080p on older games which are more CPU sensitive like FarCry5 etc, here completely ignores that fact.
On top on his test the 8700K is all core overclocked to 5GHZ, and the worst part is when says to turn off HT as it won't affect performance.
Completely ignoring the fact that a HT OFF 8700K is an 8600K. A CPU costing less than HALF the money compared to 8700K.
And again completely ignores that AMD 2700X is there within 1 fps from the 8700K @ 5GHZ (with HT ON) with GTX1080Ti on those exact games and resolutions he is using.
Of course when AMD comes out with Ryzen 3000 he is going to test at 720p to avoid GPU bottleneck scenarios, like many other youtuber hypocrites.....