Intel core parking

[Dallies]

Hi thanks for looking.

I'm having this problem with my new 12600kf where several of the cores are displayed as parked. I'm not familiar with this but from a quick read I understand that parked cores are effectively put to sleep. Good for efficiency but not good for gaming, especially when I'm playing a game with multicore support and I see that a majority of my cores are asleep!

I've changed Windows power mode to high performance but it hasn't changed a thing! Can this core parking be disabled altogether?

Another thing is whats the point of having 16 cores if they are not being utilised. Like Windows is running with all its processes and several programs are running in the background yet only 3-4 cores are being utilised? Surely in this day and age the workload could be spread out across all available cores?

Thanks.

 

[mickyflinn]

Are you using windows 11 as that's optimized for Alderlake ?

 

[Dallies]

Yea I'm in widows 11

Thanks.

 

[Armageus]

Another thing is whats the point of having 16 cores if they are not being utilised.

You don't have 16 Cores.

You have 6 "P"erformance cores, which can run 2 threads each for 12 Threads, and you have 4 "E"fficient Cores, which are not hyperthreaded and so can only run 1 thread each = 4.

When gaming it's not uncommon for 1 or 2 cores to be fully loaded and other cores to be less loaded - it's just the nature of game engines - whilst some things can be easily multithreaded, there are parts that are harder, which is why good single core performance is still important

 

[Rroff]

Windows 10/11 should handle all the core parking stuff without issues unlike 7 which needs 3rd party utilities and/or reg editing to get the best results.

 

[Dallies]

You don't have 16 Cores.

You have 6 "P"erformance cores, which can run 2 threads each for 12 Threads, and you have 4 "E"fficient Cores, which are not hyperthreaded and so can only run 1 thread each = 4.

When gaming it's not uncommon for 1 or 2 cores to be fully loaded and other cores to be less loaded - it's just the nature of game engines - whilst some things can be easily multithreaded, there are parts that are harder, which is why good single core performance is still important

Yea i understand the core count. But like when im gaming, If the game is using say 4 cores or threads, Why is windows using them also? isn't the whole point of having multiple cores for them to be used? Its kinda like a building site where you have 10 labourers, 4 of which are working there nuts off whilst the other six stand around doing nothing! lol. Is there a way to turn off core parking? what stood out is the heat, When gaming the cpu will be @60c for several minutes then suddenly it will drop to 30c for several minutes and in that several minutes my gaming performance drops? It cant be any kind of thermal throttling surely. When this happens and i look in task manager most of the cores are parked.

Thanks.