How much does clock speed really matter for the future of gaming?

[Grim5]

I found this test very eye opening.

It provides some insight into how cpu thread and clock speed scaling affects performance.

There are actually some games like Doom Eternal that don't care much about clock speed - they will run absolutely fantastic with a 2ghz to 3ghz CPU as long as it has a lot of threads.

Is Doom Eternal's thread scaling the future or do we think we'll keep seeing a lot of games that prefer high clocks like GTA V, CS:GO, WoW, Far Cry 5, RDR2 etc

 

[Grim5]

Why not both?

I haven't really seen a game do both yet. The ones that are highly threaded have so much overhead that adding extra clocks doesn't do too much - I guess that's because the CPU is no longer the bottleneck while the ones that are lightly threaded, the CPU is more likely the bottleneck so adding high clocks helps.

 

[Grim5]

Most games depend more on the GPU than the CPU.

but Doom Eternal scales very well with GPUs too so why can't games do both