CPU Use in Games

[Scarymonkeys]

So I was thinking when I was doing the dishes about CPU power. CPU's generally do increase performance on games, but they don't give that effect that GPU's do. Don't you think it would be nice if game developers would make games take every little detail of the CPU to increase performance? This could possibly allow lower-end CPU's not to bottleneck high-end GPU's. Ahead of time, I know I'll probably be wrongs, and this is just a thought. What are your thoughts?

[i_build_nanosuits]

people don't understand the dynamic between the CPU and GPU...you need both to be equaly good for the games to run smootly...the CPU does all the calculations for physics and AI and plenty of other stuff and the GPU is rendering the frames...you can't cut slack on any of these and game developers can't ignore or just ''not use'' both of those things.

 

As the game evolve they require more and more advanced physics and AI calculations so it's very likely that the games will keep getting heavier and heavier on the CPU side...but with directx 12 (a new API) it will allow for more drawcalls to the CPU from the GPU thus increasing the CPU overhead and it should help just about anybody from low end to higher end CPU getting much better performance across the board...just like AMD mantle is doing to help the slow AMD CPU at rendering modern games.

[Scarymonkeys]

people don't understand the dynamic between the CPU and GPU...you need both to be equaly good for the games to run smootly...the CPU does all the calculations for physics and AI and plenty of other stuff and the GPU is rendering the frames...you can't cut slack on any of these and game developers can't ignore or just ''not use'' both of those things.

 

As the game evolve they require more and more advanced physics and AI calculations so it's very likely that the games will keep getting heavier and heavier on the CPU side...but with directx 12 (a new API) it will allow for more drawcalls to the CPU from the GPU thus increasing the CPU overhead and it should help just about anybody from low end to higher end CPU getting much better performance across the board...just like AMD mantle is doing to help the slow AMD CPU at rendering modern games.

Very true..