First post, by Kensuke_Aida
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I hope this is the right forum, and if not, please feel free to move it.
I am wondering whether a really high end Pentium 4 could outperform a really low end dual-core processor on games coded only for one core.
The reason I am asking is that I viewed Mau1wurf1977's Unreal timedemo on Youtube where he was using a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz and a Voodoo 2 (Glide mode), and he gets considerably more fps than I do on my E-350 1.6Ghz with integrated Radeon graphics (running in DX9 mode). I can't quite break 60 fps at the same resolution (higher resolutions don't seem to run any slower though). Considering Unreal was programmed in the single core days, I'm wondering if a low end netbook type CPU becomes a liability with these single core games. Switching to OpenGL mode doesn't seem to make a difference in performance any.
I can't find any benchmarks where they run the E-350 on only one core.
The corollary question to this is whether Voodoo cards still run games from the Glide era better even today. Glide was pretty damn impressive in terms of speed for the day.
The video in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4LfByYFv8Y
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