Are 16 cores in the new Ryzen 9950X sufficient for gaming?

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/are-16-cores-in-the-new-ryzen-9950x-sufficient-for-gaming-theres-no-physical-reason-we-couldnt-do-more-than-16-cores-says-amd/

More than likely. Our issues seem to stem more from GPU power and memory at this point.

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Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social · 4 pts · 2y

Unless the new chips have a massive gain in performance I would still be looking at the x3D vcache chips for gaming specifically.

lemmylommy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

16 cores is the new four.

Dipole@pawb.social · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I wasn't aware that there were any games that could make meaningful use of 16 cores, let alone games that might want more. Was there a major advancement in game programming when I wasn't looking? Or is the headline as far off base as I think?

anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz · 2 pts · 2y

@Dipole @stefenauris I mean maybe if you play Stationeers and got a large base haha, but that seems to be the only game I know that happily maxes out 32 threads or more if you push the physics simulation