Fjodor2001
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E cores are just like any other cores, just that they are a bit slower than the P cores.I am talking about gaming. Have they been able to utilize the E cores yet for gaming? If the bLLC actually makes it to market, will the E cores be able to utilize the extra cache anyway, and would there be a latency penalty? My understanding is that the E cores are pretty much still useless for gaming.
Unless Intel can somehow get the E cores working for gaming, their "gaming" chip will effectively be 8 cores/8 threads. AMD's "gaming" chip, if the 12 core CCD materializes, will be 12 cores/24 threads. As much as I would like to see Intel meet or even exceed AMD for the gaming crown, I just cant see it happening, unless they pull some magic out of the hat with the P core architecture.
If the game needs more than 8 cores, it'll be using E cores "automatically" too. It's not like the E cores will idle then.
(This is all assuming an 8P + xE cores CPU, but the principle applies in general for other CPUs too.)