Intel's 9th gen and hyper threading

[Vergil2501]

So from I understand Intel's 9th gen series of CPUs will be dropping Hyper Threading on the i7 series in favor of having it on the i9. In this day and age is there much benefit in games for having hyper threading? Looking largely for titles like Witcher 3, Final Fantasy XV, Crysis 3, Monster Hunter World.

[.Apex.]

24 minutes ago, Vergil2501 said:

So from I understand Intel's 9th gen series of CPUs will be dropping Hyper Threading on the i7 series in favor of having it on the i9. In this day and age is there much benefit in games for having hyper threading? Looking largely for titles like Witcher 3, Final Fantasy XV, Crysis 3, Monster Hunter World.

games do gain performance from hyperthreading, but they also gain performance from more cores, not too many cores though, at some point adding more cores does nothing.

im expecting the 8700K to be the same as the 9th Gen 8 core / 8 thread, in terms of multicore score and gaming performance, same as how the 7th gen i7 4C/8T was the same as the 8th gen i5 6C/6T.

[GoldenLag]

Today?  -no

 

In the future? -yes

 

The newer games are using about 6 threads atm. This will only increase and seeing as hyperthreading or smt provides up to around 15% performance (depending on workload) improvement.

 

Games like Civ V and VI scald really well up and above 6 threads and utilizes pretty much what you give it.

[Jurrunio]

Hyper threading is worth having, but we'll see whether the price justifies the cost of it.