Arma 2 - Dual Core or Quad Core?
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Suma has posted some unofficial information about the differences regarding performance in Arma 2 between Dual Core or Quad Core CPU's in the BI forums.
As said this is unofficial information and things could very well change when the game is ready for release.
We thought it was some very interesting information about a discussion where, till now, nobody really knew Arma 2 was standing regarding CPU support.


Quote Suma :
Our intention is to scale at least to some extent to quad cores (this means with quad cores you should have either better performance in some scenes than in dual cores). Therefore the game should run better on Quad Core compared to Dual Core assuming they both run at the same frequency.

That said, you can get higher frequency Dual Core for the same money as you could get Quad Core. My prediction is 3.3 GHz Dual Core will most likely run the game better than 2.5 GHz Quad Core, while both will cost you approximately the same.

One thing to note: different scenarios / workloads may show different performance patterns - e.g. it is possible missions with huge numbers of units will runner better on 2.5 GHz Quad Core than 3.3 GHz Dual Core.

Disclaimer:
This is only a prediction and things can still change before the game is released.


Written on 2008-09-03 21:30 by Foxhound  


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