CS2’s new update rolls out a Performance Core priority / exclusivity option. I investigate.
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PC specs:
13900K CPU
Geforce 4090 24 GB
64 GB DDR5 5600 MHZ
and an SSD or something to record stuff to I dunno

Actual FPS measured: in the benchmark the AVG ranged between 579-663 FPS, 0.1% lows were 189-207 FPS. In deathmatch it ranged between 350-390 FPS AVG and 155-169 FPS 0.1% lows. But %’s measured from the 0 mark help show all the information in a nice, simple way, don’t you think 🙂

0:00 – Summary
1:04 – Benchmark
1:27 – Efficiency VS Efficiency?
2:47 – Bot/deathmatch game
3:50 – CPU limited!
4:43 – Complicated cores

41 Comments

  1. I have ryzen 5 5600x and rtx 67000xt. Games keep closing mid game. Its unplayable at this point. Any idea how to fix?

  2. Basically. Sell Intel. Buy 9800X3D. Or 7800X3D. Both are better than Intel.

    Intel wasting sand for E-core design.

  3. Everyone's talking about the thumbnail but no one is mentioning how he's constantly changing outfit lol

  4. is this basically intel apo built in? they seem like they’re winging it with this whole p & e core thing learning as they go.
    i need to mess with updating drivers when i get home also lol

  5. the line at 2:00 was so suddenly vulgar I burst out laughing. didn't think a cs2 performance measurements video would do that to me

  6. I have I5-11400 and rtx 3070 TI and I can't get 150 fps in dms (whatever the map, about 120 in D2), It's heavely CPU bottlenecked I believe as the resolution and graphics settings (shadows …) don't change anything. In some games of 5v5 even (especially on inferno) I sometimes drop into the 90s but I see some ppl getting 300s with that kind of setup, any idea of what could cause this issue ? I've checked temps and while playing, everythings fine, CPU never go more than 75 and GPU is also in the 70s. (I have 32 gigs of DDR4 3200 MHz for RAM).

  7. Soooo… Windows has all the gaming bloat built-in, being able to recognize what game you're playing, but for some reason it cannot set process affinity for those game to only P-cores? And they market Windows 11 as being such a great OS for games? What in the…

  8. AFAIK E-cores are really energy efficiency cores, but not as you think of it. They are downclocked cores (I think they used to be previous gen, don't know if it's still the case) with a more limited feature set, that means they aren't necessarily equiped to deal with high consumption highly optimized workloads like games. Due to their smaller number of transistors and lower clock speeds, they are more efficient for smaller, sparse workloads, the kind of tasks that would keep a P-core just busy enough to not clock down. So in terms of energy efficiency, if you're speaking of running windows and using google docs on chrome, E-cores are indeed more energy-efficient. As soon as you're gaming, you need your P-cores for the job.

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