Will hyper-threading make future games run faster?

[Andy_pandy]

I have seen benchmarks where Crysis 3 runs better on the AMd 8350 than the 3770K. If it turn on hyper-threading, will it run better?

I always wondered about this

 

[Ollie1132]

I have seen benchmarks where Crysis 3 runs better on the AMd 8350 than the 3770K. If it turn on hyper-threading, will it run better?

I always wondered about this

Sorry I don't get what you mean o.O the 3770k should have been tested with HT on... but physical cores are always better than virtuals. More cores currently won't make a huge difference for about 2-5 years probably. We should start to see quads start to be fully utilisied with in 2 years I'd imagine. But not fully used, remember there are still 1st gen processors that can still run todays games with minimalistic bottle necks.

 

[Deceptor]

I'd imagine things will improve over time but really only by so much, there's limits to how much you can break the processing down so it doesn't start to block on itself but these days a lot of things are asynchronously driven which allows more available cores to do work faster - but that's not exponential in the sense that having 20 cores would improve performance 20 times as some tasks will need to wait for other tasks to finish.

Ultimately it comes down to the game itself and core mechanics. Certain genres for example can be made to work with multiple cores a lot easier than others, say an RTS where there's lots of little things going on around the map vs an FPS where it's strongly focused on you and you alone (aside from NPCs/AI enemies).

 

[zakblood]

must agree with above, i play total war series of games, had a i5 for a while, tested a few amd chips that i was building for friends etc and they were better in some and same in others i played, but in the end went for a i7 with more ram, same video card and tbh games play much better, more fluid / fps, as games have very large maps and upto 10k of soldiers on map at once, i needed something that could move it all around with a good screen size so it didn't hurt my eyes after more than a few hours of playing, if the game is programmed well HT really works, same a multi thread etc, shame there aren't many good or great programmers out there, but yes it's getting better, Crysis 3 seems to use HT and also makes use of more threads/cores.

all the top end chips are good for gaming, just some are better for some games and score higher than others, while in other tests there not so good, but never by that much that it makes any real difference, so it's down to budget and games you play, what chip you buy, for me this year any 4 core would do, maybe next year 6 or 8 core, but if you have a 6/8 core already, that's fine, but may not be fully used as yet in some games etc