How Many CPU Cores Do You Really Need For Gaming in 2023?

4 Cores vs 6 Cores vs 8 Cores vs 12 Cores vs 16 Cores (SMT - ON) l 1080p

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Games :
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System:
Windows 11
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL32

[TestingGames]

Games :
Atomic Heart - 2:23


System:
Windows 11
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL32

[LjSwaGGin]

The fact that most of these games are running at 120+ fps, some 200+ fps but Hogwarts is barely hitting 60 at 1080p is SAD.

[longer_xd]

4 cores: gaming entry level
6 cores: good enough
8 cores: better investment for the future
12/16 cores: overpaid if bought only for gaming

[JuanPabloSecundo]

It seems that we are slowly moving toward 8 cores as a standard, however 6 cores are still a sweetspot. You would want to put extra money into gpu, not 8 core cpu

[GameNest]

Very interesting video. It seems all we need is a CPU with 6 cores atm, if you wanna save money to spend on other PC parts.

[wolfstorm]

Oh man, feels like yesterday when most people agreed all you really needed was 4 cores, I've only recently upgraded to 8 core 16 threads, seems to be holding up nicely

[Bdot]

Glad I upgraded to a 5700x from a 3600x. My %1 lows and average frames instantly went up

[xXCrazyGamerxX]

I would say if it's just for gaming.
4/8 Minimum.
6/12 Recommended.
8/16 Optimal.
12/24 Max overkill for prolly 90% of games.
16/32 Absolute overkill i'd think for any game, as far as I'm aware of.

[mustahidrahman]

A direct fps bump can be seen between 6 and 4, after 6 increasing cores improves fps (which is not noticeable) but the price difference is hugee

[expertPWNZ]

just be one step ahead: if everyone says the sweet spot is 6-cores cpu, better buy 8-cores cpu. if everyone says 16gb RAM is enough for gaming - buy 32gb, disable pagefile and say goodbye to stutters in game even if you multitasking

[cronos]

6cores now the best spot for gaming
But 8 cores looks more future directed.

[mfelicio]

for these reasons I continue with my 10700

[pepela]

The thing is 4 core of the 7950X is way more powerful than an actual old ass 4 core cpu it's probably comparable to 6 core cpu's

[mitchdriver]

Exactly the video I asked for 2 days ago on your older version of this. Great timing! Thank you.

[darexas]

Results look good because you had SMT on. Me having R5 3500x (6 cores without SMT), I face quite bad issues with quite a lot of modern games. Please, try with SMT off.

[rudy_master]

Recently I was thinking about going from i3 10100f to i5 10400f and after a while of thinking I did it and the difference was really big

[jshico]

when disabling cores did you use bios? when selecting which cores to disable did you keep them on the same ccd? 4+0 or 2+2? 6+0 or 3+3?

[mohammadfj]

No wonder my i7 6700k with 4 cores stutters and lags when i do streaming on Tiktok or Youtube while playing FIFA23 or any story games like Tomb Raider, etc. It's always on 100% CPU usage and made the game crash too sometimes. So should i upgrade to a new CPU? And if so my motherboard too right?

[rohanchooramun]

6 cores are more than good enough. And the difference gets even slimmer at higher resolution.

[-Rizecek-]

We don't need a lot of cores. We need better optimization for pc.