Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
I am not talking about final game performance (the worst quad will run battlefield 3 almost as fast as the best). Frostbite 2 is the first game engine I have seen that seems to chunk up workloads in smaller pieces. This is something new and that means a shift in how games are beeing developed. More games will follow and they move away from one single render thread and starts to use available cores on the cpu.
And it is max of four cores now. There is so much dependency between threads it cant extract more than 4 cores worth of parallerism out of threads. So more clock is better than more cores once you have four cores.

That basically means 8-core BD should be in max turbo all the time.