Does Hyper-Threading Matter for Gaming? — How It Works

What difference does Hyper-Threading make to games?

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[TechWithSean]

For some games = yes
For others = no

/mystery intensifies

[abcdestroyer]

God thank you so much for your content. You're straight and to the point, extremely informative, and just so professional. Glad I can watch videos about this stuff and actually LEARN something without having to sit through dubstep intros or someone shilling a sponsor for 2 minutes beforehand.

[brendlowert]

Comment for engagement from a usually silent viewer.

[Jowersman]

I enjoy this guy... I want my wife to stream tech with me, but she doesn't know what a CPU is lol

[DrearierSpider]

Finally glad to see someone do some real testing on this. After seeing how badly 4C/4T i5's fell flat on their face compared to their quad core i7 counterparts, I won't buy a CPU without hyperthreading anymore.

[MarsMagnus]

The info "boxes" and sound effects done in editing are distracting from otherwise great content. Less is more, please :)

[Jelkiin]

Hyperthreading is great!
*or is it?*
-vsauce theme plays

[insaneali]

He said: Is it just more "Hype"

[JamesRussoMillas]

Tech: "Fortnite! Everybody's favorite battle royale game"
Me: *laughs in Apex Legends*

[JohSno]

Suggestions for Steep - replace it with The Witcher 3 as it more represents of what to expect in Cyberpunk 2077, or Metro Exodus.

[DivineToad]

Last week I sold my i7-7700k for 250 euro and replaced it with a brand new 119 euro R7 2700x, I call that a (tech) deal! 😁

[techlord]

Man I'm so unhappy with my 6600k and wanted to move up to a 7700k but the problem is price its cheaper for me to go build a new ryzen for a longer-term then add that processor. Good video tech deals

[DemonsWrath]

When you hire that intern you're looking for, you'll have (some) time to do live benchmarks. It'll happen, but we just gotta wait for it.

[SirKnobofCheese]

In my head I always think of Hyper-threading as a sink with 2 plugholes instead of 1. The sink being the core and the plugholes being the threads.

[GrizzlyRed]

I absolutely love the new editing as a result of the new editor. Makes the videos more fun to watch and even more professional! Keep up the great work!

[anhonestmistake]

Hi Tech, huge fan here, love the way you scrutinize every detail of whatever subject you analize and give us an informed and concise conclusion at the end.
You asked for sugestions about games to test and I belive that for a CPU test it would be interesting to test Red Dead Redemption 2, it is quite demanding and is probably the closest we have to a "next-gen" game (not really but you get my point). Also Control is probably a good GPU benchmark. Apart from that recent demanding games are the best bet.
Well thank you for your time and hope you have a nice day :)

[dave-ish]

I always loved this content (been around since like 5k subs) but the new polished vids are just fantastic.

[magburner]

It is my birthday today, and a new Tech Deals video is up... I am not sure which I am more stoked about... lololol

[MadMacss]

Hi tech! i had the same problem that youre having with the HT. If you set the monitorization of msi afterburner to each thread instead of the overall cpu usage you will see that Windows sometimes dont use the actual physical cores. If you manually set the afinity to the physical cores the gameplay will be smoother. I reallized this when playing old games that dont use many threads and when streaming. I have a Ryzen 5 2600. Let me know if it works for you. Love your videos man, greetings from the other half of the world c:

[EvilEng]

Battlefront 2! A lot of people still play it, it's gorgeous, fun & taxing on low-end & midrange systems. It does DX12 & DX11. Please!!!
Great video! I was excited to see this topic done again. Especially with your testing, which I always respect.