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		klingonopera on May 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading? Maybe they are GPU-bound precisely because the CPU-intensive parts are so well done with Vulkan?

Narishma on May 26, 2019 [–]

I don't think so. DX12 has the same performance characteristics as Vulkan, yet the DX12 games tested show performance degradation when HT is disabled but Vulkan games do not. As I said, I think it's because the particular Vulkan games tested happen to be more GPU-bound than the DX12 ones.

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