the performance of most games are more heavily based on the gpu, not the cpu. meaning that if yur gpu is choked by yur cpu, the performance wont suffer as much. obviously u still need yur cpu and it does help in running the game, but isn't as important. people that know how to build a computer, have a cpu that matches up with their gpu on 2 cores/threads since thats what most programs use. a large majority of players wont actually benefit from this.
First thats not what he said:
Why is everyone complaining about games being optimised for Dual / Quad / Hex core CPU's???? Dont you know that it's your Graphics card that renders your game????? Plus seeing as it has been ported from console (single core CPU) it won't be optimized for quad core anyway.......
He is denying that it is actually optimized for multi core, not true.
secondly, check the hardware survey's quad cores are quite pervasive, lots of people have them.
Thirdly, check the many reviews that include CPU scaling (cores) you will see that almost all games run better on more than one core.
Fourthly, You have not read many game reviews lately, more and more of them are using more than two,three, and yes more than 4 cores (see BC2)
Here is a benchmark going back a year and a half ago with a dated Q6660 and a GS 250 card. see the huge jump from 1-2-3 cores?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/multi-core-cpu,2280-11.html
and how do you explain this?...same GPU being used, the only difference is the number of cores and the CPU frequency.
Call of Duty: Black Ops can take advantage of four cores and is undoubtedly optimized for the current crop of chips. In fact, the game relies so heavily on all four cores that we found it almost unplayable (OK, that may be exaggerating a bit) on even the fastest dual-core CPU. That said, AMD's triple-core Athlon II and Phenom II processors did provide lag free performance.
the performance of most games are more heavily based on the gpu, not the cpu
okay, plug in a single core in its place and see what happens.
. meaning that if yur gpu is choked by yur cpu, the performance wont suffer as much.
Huh?
obviously u still need yur cpu and it does help in running the game,
ya think?
again, what do you think feeds your GPU subsystem? and most games scale with CPU cores and frequency.
a large majority of players wont actually benefit from this.
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A large majority?
anyway, check your hardware surveys
and one more time, he was asserting that they cannot, and are not optimized for more than a single core, and that it does not make a difference because the GPU is running the whole show...obviously not.
people that know how to build a computer, have a cpu that matches up with their gpu on 2 cores/threads since thats what most programs use.
I do do every day, If I was only giving the gamers two cores for games today...I would be out of business. If you are a gamer, and have more than two cores, you should log your CPU while you play... what you find may surprise you.
have a cpu that matches up with their gpu on 2 cores/threads
If its so overwhelmingly GPU dependent, why do you need to have equal or "matched up" GPU/CPU?