Well they do have processing power and GPU's have come a long way. When I ran the graphics utility GPU Z it was showing the higher levels of RAM were not being used.
Well its understanding what the threads are doing and appreciating that threads are not cores. My job is performance in the world of SAP and sometimes turning off hyperthreading makes things work faster but thats more due to single threaded actions.
I'm trying to find more benchmarks comparing my 4670K to the newer processors as it sometimes fills the void of boredom...how much smoother could it beeee??? ;p
It runs about 36 threads. A thread for each civ so things like thinking can be done more in parallel,a core logic thread seems the busiest overall and threads for certain graphics by the looks of things. It’s this multi threading that spreads the load. More civs would mean more threads and a graphics slider difference shows you get GPU bound.
I have a similar experience on my MacBook. I don't remember the exact numbers, but GS turn times where 60ish, which I couldn't believe at first. So I started the old civ VI AI benchmark and forgot what it showed as a result, but it was only a fraction (12? 15? 17?) and I was somewhat relieved. Similar situation for the Graphics benchmark, although the gap wasn't that large in this case (~80 to ~60 I think). Also, the GS benchmarks took a long while to load (the whole text was read on the loading screen) and even when the game was finally loaded, it took like a minute until it actually started to play.
