Will games be more optimized for AMD 8 core CPU's from now on?

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Hi,

 

Sorry if this has been posted before I have been ill for sometime now and pretty much bed bound. With Xbox One and PS4 both using AMD 8 core APU's. There is no secret that when it comes to single threaded games Intel are the better choice CPU's. But am wondering with the 2 next gen consoles both having 8 core AMD APU's. Won't developers want to focus more on optimizing games for not only both next gen consoles. But for AMD cpu's such as the FX series?

 

I hope they do as this will benefit me and my 8 core 8320. Not that am complaining my 8320 is handing my games absolutely fine as it is.

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It seems that way, but none the less theire will always be favortism on wich hardware does better in what game so it just depends on what you will play. but your right, amd took both ends of the deal on next gen consoles so maybe pc benchmarks will do better with FX. thank god i haz 8350

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8 core optimised games are allready here and some older games are geting patched to run more cores.

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What were you using to display that?

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msi afterburner and hwinfo64 (use hwifo64 to add whatever you whant to msi's afterburners on screen display)

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so thats why im hitting 50 fps on far cry 3 o-o, where didyou get that add on for msi?

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http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/hwinfo64.html

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I think games will begin to utilise more cores, but I think 8 cores might be a little high. Console APUs have a pair of cores dedicated to background tasks. So I would imagine it could be 6 or less.

I believe that most people are running 4 core processors. Why wouldn't they optimise games for what the vast majority of people are using?

I am skeptical.

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soon there will be a game that uses more then 4 cores, but maybe not 8.. it makes sense to make a patch that utilizes ALL cores so it wont suck the life from just 4

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Look at the picture it shows you how to add items then you just need to have MSI afterburner running it will show on the onscreen display 

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I do hope we see more resource hungry games. It's only going to help things develop, I just don't know if we are there yet.

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thanks cooper, i always wanted something to moniter my cpu cores, if only cpu-z can do a better job...

well if ALL devolopers get too greedy and make amazing stuff what will be of those who may have only 6 cores? upragding isnt cheap. also im hoping for better 3-D action, and all games fore 7.1 stero surround haha i love surround sound.

also crytek is going to use cryengine3 for awhile until something crazy pops up so nothing more intense then that..

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It's not hard to code a sub-program within your game to utilize different CPU core sets depending on what is being offered by the given system. Optimizing for one platform vs another is where it gets complicated. This is why I think optimization for competitor A vs competitor B is a bad idea when it comes to CPU utilization.

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I wouldn't say amd 8 core cpus, I'd say more threads in general. Right now hardly any use 4, soon we'll hopefully get a lot of games that 4 or more threads really helps on. Amd has 6 thread cpu, intel as 8, 4 core, and 12, 6 core, thread cpus. Haswell-E is gonna have 8 core 16 thread cpus(which I am saving up for) so hopefully that means their 6 core 12 thread cpus come to the consumer market soon. This gen should make all cpus with more cores/threads preform better and I am looking forward to it. We may finally have real competition in the gaming cpu market then.

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for games made for consoles yes

 

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+1

Two factors:

- consoles are AMD multicores, especially in the case of the sony with probably an efficient kernel capable of good load balancing, but the performance per core is well under the performance on desktop chips, so they will have to leverage the multicore scaling;

- the windows platform is not particularly good at multiprocessor scaling, it will never excell at multicore leveraging, games for windows developers will simply not bother.

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Do logical core count, as in if I have a i7 it would be using all the physical cores and logical ones in the same way.

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If the benchmarks from cryengine 3 games that use 8 threads are anything to go by, yes. 

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it's still a little too soon for game leaks, so we still dont know what game that could possibly require multi threading. in the future, not too soon, but in the future there will be hardcore multicore required games