we always want faster and more powerful components and these days people are
starting to focus on other things as well like power consumption and thermal
output but what about the age-old how many cores do I need for modern gaming
question has the landscape changed or is it still quad cores for life like it was
for pretty much a long time what about the Pentium g3258 dual core that made a
big splash a while back is that processor blazing fast overclock speeds
and affordable price point viable in today's market stay tuned to find out
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the test bench we used to get our numbers is rocking an Intel 5960x
overclocked just a bit to 3.2 GHz with 32 gigs of ddr4 RAM running at 3,000 MHz
it's also sporting a windforce GTX 980 from Gigabyte running at stock and we
went a little bit crazy and started disabling cores and hyperthreading and
to simulate various CPUs that are available for purchase today for testing
we chose to use a dual core without hyperthreading dual core with hyperthreading quad core without
hyperthreading quad core with hyperthreading hex core with hyperthreading and octacore with
hyperthreading to round out our test Suite all right now for the meat and
potatoes we chose a few new games from for our test so we'll start with those
ones first and first on the chopping block is cities skylines to Benchmark
cities we downloaded the Los Santos map from GTA 5 made by groeller on the Steam
Workshop and we chose a section of the town called South Los Santos with mixed
traffic and building density to push uh the test pinch quite a bit we maxed out
the graphics and zoomed in almost all the way and then started to record
City's skylines likes its CPU cores but only to a certain point dual cores seem
to struggle a bit more than the rest them at least which wasn't too
surprising but where it got interesting was at the 8 core level cities ran a lot
more poorly than actually lower levels
and had very noticeable stuttering throughout all of our testing a reminder
however is we did run our test shortly after the game came out so optimizations
might be not be made yet and might be made in the future and could very
drastically change things over time next up we have Dying Light we decided to run
it at both 1080P and 4K after we saw the 1080p results to see if we could
separate the numbers a bit more as the only outlier was really the Dual Corp
how we ran the Benchmark for Dying Light was relatively straightforward in the
main town close to the tower there's a really long overpass near the start of
that is a bus which is near the opening to the tunnel anyways just run down the
overpass and loot back around while zigzagging through burning cars and the
undead we ran our test after the developers have released several patches
in optimizations and even at Absolute absolutely cranked settings not much of
a difference really occurs at the higher end configurations with only the dual
core and dual core with hyperthreading configurations suffering a bit of a
performance hit our last newcomer to the game suite but not our last Benchmark is
Total War Atilla for this game we set the appropriate graphic settings which I
decided was apparently freaking all of them and then selected the suon
historical battle swz SW so I don't know
and Clash the armies together in one giant ball without speeding it up we
ended up running The Benchmark at every quality preset as you just saw to see if
we could churn different results out of the game and it turns out Total War
atella is quite the PowerHouse throwing more cores at it does indeed give a bit
more of a performance jump over a dual core setup however the amount is oddly
very negligible at lower presets I will note that this game isn't the constant
FPS of the game these numbers are only from intense combat sections so it would
run way better when not staring directly into combat where the twist comes in is
at the maxim performance preset the numbers are just ridiculous for this
test and make no sense but average frame rates are super high and there is no
drastic stuttering so if you're worried about if your machine can run this game
put it on maximum performance settings and it should be extremely easy for you
to do even with some older slower
processors now that all the new games are done let's take a break for some
oldies but goodies the first being Tomb Raider I know this game dates back all
the way to 2013 but it's a very reliable benchmark Mark in terms of GPU scaling
so we decided to include it as it's in lots of our test Suites like Dying Light
we ran Tomb Raider in both 1080P and 4K and the results were pretty funny to be
honest it doesn't seem to matter what arrangement of course you have the game
will run perfectly equal like freakishly
equal even at 4K I think in the future
we will leave this game for GPU tests only our final game is Far Cry 4 this
game is a bit of a [ __ ] show and and that's why we saved it for last
performance is essentially the same across four six and eight core settings
regardless of hyperthreading but as soon as you drop down to dual cores
hyperthreading or not the game flat out refuses to boot at all this is because
Ubisoft locked out all users that have dual course from launching the freaking
game there is a fixed floating round that could potentially get it running
but it's a hassle and most mention of it has been pulled down by Ubisoft anyways
those of you with older dual cores or the Pentium g3258 first edition but
whereas this could be a pretty big issue for you honestly the most disappointing
thing about this issue is that from the looks of it it's easier to fix for
pirates than it is for Real paying users
which is highly disappointing yet not at
all surprising all right I guess that brings us tidally to the conclusion of
this video which is having more cores is nice and may help with some things like
video rendering or game streaming or whatever else but you don't need more
than a quad core or for modern gaming and you would be mostly fine with a
quick dual core even but what's your sweet spot let me know in the comments
down below or on the Forum I know I like my higher core count processors because
I tend to be doing a billion things at once on my computer including running
virtual machines streaming games and more would you guys be interested in a
course for gaming Style video where we rerun these tests while doing other
things on the computer as well like possibly streaming or just a whole bunch
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