What's the sweetest spot for gaming the 4 6, 8, 12 cores?

surviivor201 said:
so this game uses 16 cores better from 6 and 8 cores and 12 cores??
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Well, maybe its not that simple as 5900x has a higher boost clock, but that won't give a 30% increase, so it looks like this is a new game which can utilise more cores which might be the case in 2021 and beyond.

I would aim for 8 core if paired with latest gpu, why hold back a great 6800xt or 3080 for the sake of a few cores?
 
turbot1984 said:
CP2077 benchmarks show a 5900x is 30% faster than a 5600x at 1440p, and 4 core cpu's take a hammering.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tomshardware.com/amp/news/cyberpunk-2077-cpu-scaling-benchmarks
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Yes, when the GPU is not being asked to do (relatively) much work. As the GPU starts picking up the load, it's CPU frequency that matters. Pretty much any CPU today is bottlenecking an RTX 3090 at 4k. If you game at less than 1440p ultrawide, then there's a case for more than 4 or 6 cores but over that, it's not going to matter what CPU (within reason) you have in the next couple of years (matched with a top end GPU).
 
When I bought my 4 core q6600 (I know it's two dual cores stuck together), back in early 2007, people were predicting on TS2 all manner of necessary advancements we will have to get by 2020. We only need 2 extra cores in 14 years. I have friends rocking 920 and 2500K still. Those ancient CPU's are still good especially for CS, TF2, Overwatch etc. My mother is still rocking my old q6600 with an AMD 6770 and can browse and moderate game perfectly fine.

My opinion is CPU's have reached a plateau and there isn't much further to go. When I bought my AMD Athlon back in 2000 it was out of date at the end of 2001. People are gaming on 13 year old chips today, unheard of back in the day. I guess we'll have to wait for Quantum computers to become commercially available.
 
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