Quote Originally Posted by Scubar View Post
Goshs theory that the C2D and C2Q are only good at single threaded apps is possibly one of the most undeniably stupid things i have ever heard anyone say. Maybe i should buy a Phenom for all my Video encoding as thats all multithreaded.
That’s not what I said. C2D/C2Q is designed for single threaded applications, that doesn’t mean that it can’t run multithreaded applications. Depending on how the application has been developed the performance will shift towards Phenom. Exactly where Phenom is taking the lead depends on the application. But threaded applications where threads don’t talk to each other and isn’t using that much memory, then Intel will perform well.
If one game engine is developed for the PC then it probably is optimized for Intel also, the reason is that they will design the game for the most common computer and doing some tradeoffs on functionality. The thing is that PC isn’t that important for the game engines anymore.
Games that are developed for PS3 would perform better on AMD compared to Intel C2D/C2Q. I just have some basic knowledge about the cell processor but if the game is optimized for the PS3 it isn’t possible to tweak it that much for Intel if you don’t want to redesign the engine. AMD does work better for games that are optimized for PS3 if what I have read is right. Race Driver Grid is one game that could be used to test this, more will be out soon I think so there should be clearer if I am right or wrong.
Another game engine that is optimized for PS3 is id Tech 5

We put so much more effort into optimizing on the PS3.