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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:26 pm
by Cakedaddy
Anyone else parts shopping? According to Tomshardware.com, the Core 2 Duo outperforms the Quad core cpu (6600) in all game benchmarks except for one, and even in that one, it loses to the quad by only a very small margin (about 3 fps). Am I missing something, or are games that apposed to quad core technology? Even the Supreme Commander test showed the Duo outperforming the quad. What are you finding?
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:26 am
by TheCatt
We covered this before, kinda.
Pretty much, it's hard for games to use and synch all those threads, so most don't use more than 1 or 2.
I'm sure we'll get there, especially for games that have lots of off-camera processing/synching (like simulation games).
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:05 am
by GORDON
Games need to start using one of those cores in lieu of a physics card, which is a great idea in concept but pretty much unnecessary in a world of underutilized quad cores.
And graphics processing, for that matter.