Contemporary CPUs and New Games: No Way to Delusions

[caz67]

Hi guys,

I found this an interesting read..If this has alrady been posted i apologise.

Article

 

[Fern]

Yeah, the dual cores did better than I expected:

However, the mere fact that there are a lot of CPU types in the today?s market, even within the same price group, can be quite confusing for the PC users. While it is not that hard to decided between the Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 processors offered at the same price point, the dual-core solutions may appear a stumbling stone. Some time ago we could simply mark them as ?not for gamers? and we could be absolutely right about it. Their working frequencies are lower than those of their single-core fellows, and the actual advantages of having a second core haven?t been used by the gaming applications at all. Now the situation has changed a lot. Graphics processor developers released new driver versions that can support multi-threading, and game developers began to modify their engines so that they could take good advantage of dual-core architectures. As we see, new shooters based on gaming engines from id Software can already use the power of two processor cores. Since these gaming engines are among the most popular nowadays, Quake 4 and call of Duty 2 may very soon become far not the only ones using dual-core. Moreover, it wouldn?t be surprising at all if some other gaming engines also acquire dual-core support: progress keeps going forward.

The sentance in italics is gibberish though?

 

[Evleos]

How come? Severeal games will use these engines, thus several games will certainly support dual cores.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Evleos
How come? Severeal games will use these engines, thus several games will certainly support dual cores.

Read the sentence aloud. I think I know what they want to say, but the way they wrote it is terrible. My old english teacher would be appalled.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

me fail english, that unpossible

It doesn't take a degree in rocket surgery to figure out dual cores are going to get better in game performance with time ? however its pretty silly to equate dualcore CPUs with better gaming performance any time soon. Emphasis will always be placed on the GPU first, we all know that. Heck I?d be willing to wager that a PPU (or physics focused GPUs) would have a larger impact on gaming performance before multiple cores.