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HUB - Intel Fixes E-Cores For Gaming, Doesn’t Give 12th & 13th Gen Users The Fix! APO Testing (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, applications are definitely getting optimized for 8C/16T as of late so it won't be all that surprising.

Hyper-threaded threads (hyper-threads?) can't match an actual core by design, after all.

However, I'm merely question the addition of 8+ E-Cores in Intel's high-end SKUs. I believe I explicitly mentioned that I can see the potential of integrating 4 to 8 E-Cores into a CPU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if I showed you Intel 12th 6p+6e was able to defeat amd's 8p in real world applications 2 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A quad-core or - at most - an octa-core cluster of E-Cores should be more than enough for handling 'mundane' background activity while the P-Cores are busy doing all the heavy-lifting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's perfectly reasonable for high-end SKUs.

You either have single-threaded workloads or games that might use 6-8 threads at most. Or you have "embarrassingly parallel" workloads like rendering or all sorts of scientific computing that will use as many cores as you have.

If you literally only game on your PC then I guess just disable the e-cores.