Performance 2 HyperThreaded Cores in 4 Core games?

[LegacyStijncat]

Hello, and thanks for reading this already!

 

How will a Hyperthreaded Dual core CPU (like the i3) react in games where you actually need 4 cores to run it?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Tim Drake]

better than Dual cores worse than Quad Cores.

 

But any game that requires a quad core can run on an i3 if i remember correctly.

[Aniallation]

How will a Hyperthreaded Dual core CPU (like the i3) react in games where you actually need 4 cores to run it?

Performance itself will be better then a dual-core without HT, but worse then a physical quad core (obviously, common sense). However as far as games that need a "quad-core" to run, like FarCry 4 and COD:AW, the game will read the i3 as a "quad" core (counting logical cores), so it will work fine.

[LegacyStijncat]

Thanks a lot @Tim Drake and @Aniallation!

[Lithicas]

I wonder. Some games that require quad cores just put all the CPU load on core 3. What effect would this have on a 2C HT processor?