Will hyperthreading ever make a difference in gaming?

[XxDeadpool67xX]

Games like Metal gear solid V the phantom pain recommend a 3770k I plan on getting skylake so would I get a significant difference from going with a 6700k than a 6600k both overclocked at 4.5ghz? If no do you think there will ever be a significant difference?

[minibois]

Yep.

Makes a pretty huge difference on i3 CPU's.

And maybe later on with DX12 better utilizing 6+ cores, yes.

[DimasRMDO]

Hyper-threading gives impact on gaming but not much.

If you want, get the i5 and use the save money for a better GPU.

EDIT:

Unless the game is CPU intensive, hyper-threading helps. But in most games, hyper-threading isn't used much.

Edited August 14, 2015 by DimasRMDO

[Glenwing]

It already can. It's just rarely seen because games are usually not highly multithreaded, and when they are they're usually so graphically intense that most people are limited by their GPU long before hyperthreading vs. non-hyperthreading comes into play anyway. Will it ever be the deciding factor between playable and unplayable? Unlikely, unless you're talking about a dual-core.

Does a hyperthreaded quad-core provide higher performance than a non-hyperthreaded one, if you specifically change the settings to reduce GPU load as much as possible? Yes. But usually we're talking about a 250fps vs 150fps kind of situation, by the time you see any difference they're both high enough that it doesn't matter.

[ShadowCaptain]

Games like Metal gear solid V the phantom pain recommend a 3770k I plan on getting skylake so would I get a significant difference from going with a 6700k than a 6600k both overclocked at 4.5ghz? If no do you think there will ever be a significant difference?

 

I can make a difference its just not used very widely. some games are optimised for HT but only be a handful, its very hard to program for multiple cores let alone hyper-threading and since most CPUs / consoles do not have HT, its a lot of work to effect very few people

 

 

I would only go for the i7 if you are planning on doing heavy productivity or need the performance that it can bring

 

For gaming the i5 is still the smart choice for the foreseeable future

 

 

IF you have the money to blow, then get the i7 anyway

[niofalpha]

It already does. i3 vs Pentium.

[XxDeadpool67xX]

I can make a difference its just not used very widely. some games are optimised for HT but only be a handful, its very hard to program for multiple cores let alone hyper-threading and since most CPUs / consoles do not have HT, its a lot of work to effect very few people

 

 

I would only go for the i7 if you are planning on doing heavy productivity or need the performance that it can bring

 

For gaming the i5 is still the smart choice for the foreseeable future

 

 

IF you have the money to blow, then get the i7 anyway

Very small to none productivity

 

Hyper-threading gives impact on gaming but not much.

If you want, get the i5 and use the save money for a better GPU.

Already getting a 980ti

[Godlygamer23]

In CPU intensive games, hyper-threading will help a lot. Look at TechPowerUp's comparison of the i5 and i7 in certain games.

[ShadowCaptain]

Very small to none productivity

 

Already getting a 980ti

 

If you are getting a 980ti, just get the i7, that's what I would do, in games where HT matters there is no point potentially slowing down your 980ti

[XxDeadpool67xX]

In CPU intensive games, hyper-threading will help a lot. Look at TechPowerUp's comparison of the i5 and i7 in certain games.

Only game where it made a big difference was BF3 i think BF4 uses a different engine can you list more benchmarks?

[SeanBond]

Games like Metal gear solid V the phantom pain recommend a 3770k I plan on getting skylake so would I get a significant difference from going with a 6700k than a 6600k both overclocked at 4.5ghz? If no do you think there will ever be a significant difference?

It already does if you play a game that supports all the extra threads. I personally have quite noticable performance gains and much higher minimum frame rates in games such as crysis 3 and battlefield 4. 

[XxDeadpool67xX]

Gonna probably get an i5 6600k.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Gonna probably get an i5 6600k.

unless you already have a 980ti in the basket anyways, yes i would say so.

[SteveGrabowski0]

In CPU intensive games, hyper-threading will help a lot. Look at TechPowerUp's comparison of the i5 and i7 in certain games.

 

Do you have a link to this?

[Vrbas]

Gonna probably get an i5 6600k.

What is the price of the 6600k for you? Where I'm at the 6600k is 269$ And the i7 4790K is $279. So you might want to check on that. The 4790K is a beast CPU. You might as well go for that. No point getting an i5 when you can get an i7 for $10 more.

[XxDeadpool67xX]

What is the price of the 6600k for you? Where I'm at the 6600k is 269$ And the i7 4790K is $279. So you might want to check on that. The 4790K is a beast CPU. You might as well go for that. No point getting an i5 when you can get an i7 for $10 more.

$250 also that's in microcenter only

[TheConverter]

Get a 6700K, it's worth:

 

[XxDeadpool67xX]

Get a 6700K, it's worth:

 

That video wasn't to helpful yet this one was

[SteveGrabowski0]

Most AAA games now are parallelized well enough to split their load across all 8 threads of an i7-2600k. E.g., not have threads sitting at 5% load or something where they're effecitvely idle. Here is a roundup of CPU performance on AAA releases from 2014, with a bad English translation from Russian. lol

 

https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&hl=en&u=http://gamegpu.ru/test-video-cards/igry-2014-goda-protiv-protsessorov-test-gpu.html

 

When considering i5 vs i7 I think it makes sense to look at the performance gain as a percentage of your budget. If you're spending $700-$1000 on a complete system, you're probably not building something powerful enough to expose the differences between the two CPUs for gaming, and that $100 difference between an i5 and an equivalent i7 is a huge chunk of your budget. Conversely, if you're building a $1500+ system, that price difference between the CPUs is a smaller fraction of your budget, and you might be building a system powerful enough to where the i7 can make an actual difference. It especially makes sense to go with the higher grade CPU when targeting 120 fps or more where you might see that 5-10% difference in framerate since you're likely to be CPU bound. If you throw vsync on and play at 60 fps that's different though, unless you're trying to max out shadows in which case the more powerful CPU is again helpful.

[XxDeadpool67xX]

Get a 6700K, it's worth:

 

That video wasn't to helpful yet this one was

[XxDeadpool67xX]

Most AAA games now are parallelized well enough to split their load across all 8 threads of an i7-2600k. E.g., not have threads sitting at 5% load or something where they're effecitvely idle. Here is a roundup of CPU performance on AAA releases from 2014, with a bad English translation from Russian. lol

 

https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&hl=en&u=http://gamegpu.ru/test-video-cards/igry-2014-goda-protiv-protsessorov-test-gpu.html

 

When considering i5 vs i7 I think it makes sense to look at the performance gain as a percentage of your budget. If you're spending $700-$1000 on a complete system, you're probably not building something powerful enough to expose the differences between the two CPUs for gaming, and that $100 difference between an i5 and an equivalent i7 is a huge chunk of your budget. Conversely, if you're building a $1500+ system, that price difference between the CPUs is a smaller fraction of your budget, and you might be building a system powerful enough to where the i7 can make an actual difference. It especially makes sense to go with the higher grade CPU when targeting 120 fps or more where you might see that 5-10% difference in framerate since you're likely to be CPU bound.

I guess so as an i5 seems out of place and z170 prices should go down. I'm getting a 980 ti might go sli down the road and 16gb of RAM an i5 will seem very out of place

[Godlygamer23]

Do you have a link to this?

http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/reviews/Intel/Core_i5_4670K_and_i7_4770K_Comparison/8.html

They only tested three games so it's limited.