Quote from: jdrch on November 11, 2023, 04:10:08Yeah especially when the top SKU gets absolutely mopped by the competition in gaming benchmarks, which typically favor single thread performance.
Very true. However though, luckily I'd say, trends are changing lately but sadly not because of good game optimization but instead of devs' laziness (most of them, not all) to optimize so players basically have to "bruteforce" the game with many CPU cores. And in games such as Counter Strike 2 even a still very capable i5 11600K 6/12 CPU is giving less performance than a laptop i7 1260P 12/16 despite both having pretty much identical single thread performance (0.6% difference on Passmark) - those efficiency cores and full 16 threads in the 1260P are playing significant role especially with the new volumetric smoke (barely and fps drop on the 1260P and about 9% drop with the 11600K, despite the 11600K being paired with a 3070 Ti while the 1260P is using the same 3070 Ti via eGPU).