Understanding how processors work and how they work under load with different types of tasks is always a big question. Fortunately, Gordon Mah Ung recently received some answers straight from the horse’s mouth at Intel’s Innovation 2022 conference. Check out PCWorld’s latest YouTube video to see how the Core i9-13900K and Windows 11 2022 update spread the load of professional gaming and media across its eight performance cores and sixteen efficiency cores.
As you can see in the video, the processor’s newly updated Thread Director 2 can achieve maximum processing on all 24 threads when a single demanding task is running, such as rendering lighting effects in Unreal 5. This oneas Intel senior technical marketing engineer Roy Hill does on the demo machine, it’s smart enough to dedicate the performance cores to the foreground task while keeping the efficiency cores running in the first program.
Insufficient? What if you want to go crazy and play an intense gaming session on top of both tasks? The demo does just that, once again moving background processes to E-cores while the game runs super-smooth on P-cores, dedicated to the most urgent foreground task.
We’ll be able to break down the Core i9-13900K and its newly announced stablemates in more detail when we bring them in for review. In the meantime, subscribe to the PCWorld YouTube channel to see even more geeks of the latest and greatest in computer hardware!
