CPU and Multi-cadre Operation

StarCraft II only takes advantage of dual cores, but still processing power plays a major office in this game. For example, the Core i3 540 processor but has half the L3 cache of the Cadre i5 750 and this makes the latter 27% faster when comparing the clock for clock data at three.70GHz.

The extra threads of the Core i7 920 processor are no advantage when compared to the Core i5 750 in this game, but the boosted memory capacity and bandwidth is. The Cadre i7 920 was 11% faster when comparing the clock for clock data at 3.70GHz which is quite significant.

An older processor like the Core 2 Quad Q6600 suffers compared to the other CPUs tested, serving as a bottleneck to a loftier-end GPU such as the GeForce GTX 480. The Phenom II processors delivered average operation and we saw no real difference between the Phenom 2 X2 (dual-core) and Phenom Ii X4 (quad-core processors).

It is a shame that StarCraft Ii tin simply utilize ii cores, as this really hurts older quad-core processors such every bit the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Furthermore this will as well hateful that those with budget quad-core processors, such as the Athlon 2 X4, volition as well endure.

The graph above shows multi-core operation by measuring the CPU utilization of our 8 actor test on the Cadre i5 750 processor. As nosotros had found when testing the beta of StarCraft 2, this game is merely optimized to utilise ii cores at best, which is disappointing to say the to the lowest degree.