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Multi-Core Processors and Upcoming Games: What's the Effect?

Unreal 3 Developer Answers Questions

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 03/16/2005 | 11:19 PM ]

AnandTech continues to investigate how multi-core will affect different aspects of computer performance. Since the main driver for computer development and search for higher performance has been games, AnandTech tries to find out what performance boost can game developers gain from multi-core CPUs, and which additional problems they may encounter.

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“Writing multithreaded code means much higher software development costs while CPU development gets easier and thus cheaper (compared to even more complex superscalar CPUs). No wonder that the CPU developers are very motivated to hype the multi-core route, but the software development community is probably less enthusiastic,” AnandTech web-site expresses its doubts.

At the same time, game developers seem to be optimistic about upcoming multi-core microprocessors.

“You can expect games to take advantage of multi-core pretty thoroughly in late 2006 as games and engines also targeting next-generation consoles start making their way onto the PC,” claims Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic.