Which games use more than 4 cores?

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

I've purchased this cpu some years ago, beacuse I thought that by 2017 games would have 6 or more core support.

BOY was I wrong.

 

Or was i???

 

Which games run more than 4 cores today?? I want to play something, where I can have the full benefit of having an 8-core cpu.

 

Recommend please!!

[themctipers]

Cities skylines?

hmm

 

dx12 games?

[david cassar]

1 minute ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

I've purchased this cpu some years ago, beacuse I thought that by 2017 games would have 6 or more core support.

BOY was I wrong.

 

Or was i???

 

Which games run more than 4 cores today?? I want to play something, where I can have the full benefit of having an 8-core cpu.

 

Recommend please!!

Bf1 64 player multiplayer

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Just now, themctipers said:

Cities skylines?

hmm

 

dx12 games?

Hmm.. Do all DX12 games support 8 cores?

If so, then maybe it's time to upgrade GPU.

 

I've played Cities Skylines. Didn't seem like it used all 8 though more like 4.

 

 

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Just now, david cassar said:

Bf1 64 player multiplayer

Thank you!!

[Scruffy90]

According to Bethesda, Fall Out 4 with that high texture res pack . On a serious note, maybe something like ashes of singularity and cities

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Just now, Scruffy90 said:

According to Bethesda, Fall Out 4 with that high texture res pack . On a serious note, maybe something like ashes of singularity and cities

Is ashes of singularity a good game though? Or is it just more of a benchmark tool?

And does it do that in DX11 as well?

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

3 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Cities skylines?

hmm

 

dx12 games?

BTW, are you seeing any bottlenecks on 1070 with that cpu?

[Scruffy90]

Just now, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

Is ashes of singularity a good game though? Or is it just more of a benchmark tool?

I honestly don't know. I believe its an RTS game (the genre is not my cup of tea), but its been used heavily for benchmarking dx12 performance 

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

BTW, are you seeing any bottlenecks on 1070 with that cpu?

Nothing with 3770k and 1070..

[Mira Yurizaki]

There's no such thing as "games only support up to X cores." Applications create threads, they submit these threads to the OS for scheduling via a queue system (except in Linux, but the principle is similar). The OS looks at the queues and pops off whatever's in front and puts it into a CPU that's ready. It does not care who the thread belongs to. Games only use up to so many cores because of diminishing returns due to Amdahl's Law.

 

Also you have to consider the total performance of a processor. A Pentium or Core i3 theoretically run circles around the Jaguar CPUs found in the PS4 or Xbox One, despite the Pentium and Core i3 having only two cores while the Jaguar CPUs have eight. This is because the total performance of Pentium and Core i3 is higher than the Jaguar.

[Adreyu]

I don't know if anyone has said these yet, but my i7 gets pretty up there with hyper threading turned on ( I  know hyper threading doesnt equate to real cores but you can tell that its using more than just 4 cores without hyperthreading when playing):

witcher 3
gta 5
civ 5 and 6 in some high AI calculation situations
ashes of the singularity
Cities skylines

granted an i7 will handle these pretty well.

[Thunderpup]

Any game that uses more than 4 cores is likely to be very CPU intensive, and therefore your CPU may actually bottleneck before the Gpu.  I mention this because that AMD chip, while fine in many games that rely mostly on the GPU;  may struggle in a CPU intensive game.

 

 

[raphidy]

Usually, new RTS and open world game.