Comment on Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake

• anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That has been happening for the last decade, but it’s really hard.

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• drfuzzyness@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most AAA game studios target consoles first. Their in-house or external porting teams will then adapt it for Windows, but by then major engine decisions will likely have already been made in service of supporting the Ryzen/RDNA based Xbox Series and PS5 consoles. Smaller studios might try to target all systems at once but aiming for the least common denominator (Vulkan, low hardware requirements). Switch is a bit of its own best when trying to get high performance graphics.

  Multi threading is mostly used for graphics, sound, and animation tasks while game logic and scripting is almost always single threaded.

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  • deleted@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I bought Ryzen 3950x 16 cores 32 threads.

    The first thing I noticed is some AAA games only utilize 8 cores. When you go multi threaded, it’s a matter of adding more threads which can dynamically selected based on the host hardware. AAA game studios are going the bad practice route.

    I understand if they port an algorithm optimized to run on specific hardware as it’s. But, a thread count?

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    • Nighed@sffa.community ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is only so much that can be multi-threaded, beyond that the overhead just slows things down (and can cause bugs)

      More simulation type games (city skylines etc) can multithread more (generally) while your standard shooter has much less that it can do (unless you have AI bots etc)

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Plus it only takes one unthreadable task to bottleneck the whole thing anyway.

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      • deleted@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My point here is the developer managed to split the load evenly between 8 threads. How come they cannot do it for 16?

        The keyword, evenly, means all 8 threads are at 100% while other 8 threads are at 1-2%.

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    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ah, if only it were that simple. One can dream. The cpu is just one component in the system

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