When games start using multiple cores will it make the amd 8 core proc bett

[togerland]

When games start using multiple cores will it make the amd 8 core proc better for gaming then the i5 quad core is right now?

[_neutrino Veteran]

When games start using multiple cores will it make the amd 8 core proc better for gaming then the i5 quad core is right now?

Hope so (have a top tier AMD)

[togerland]

Hope so (have a top tier AMD)

I hope not i jus bought an i5 :( haha

[giantpotato]

I just don't see games ever fully using 8 threads in the near future. There's only a limited number of things that a game needs to compute in parallel, and for the most part most of the heavy computing is done by the GPU anyways.