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Single Threaded Performance vs Multi Threaded Performance; Which is more important in 2023? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For much of the 2010s, we were stuck with mainly dual-core and quad-core CPUs in PCs. However the arrival of Ryzen shook the PC industry, causing a rapid increase in core counts. At the time, there was fervent discussion on this matter, with many questioning if more cores were worth it, and how many cores are more than enough?

So how do things stand today? The latest Intel and AMD consumer processors top out at 24 and 16 cores respectively. What extent of modern software can take advantage of all those cores? What modern workloads are still bottlenecked by single threaded performance?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As a gamer what do you think about Intel's E-cores? I have heard that E-cores are detrimental to gaming performance, with some gamers disabling them or instead opting for AMD CPUs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's very situational, usually the difference is negligible or better (when they're enabled).

The E cores are termed efficient is because they're efficient in regards to how much physical space they occupy, not in terms of power/performance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

if you game, disable ecores in bios and forget about them.

Not only are e-cores useless for gaming, they create issues.