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Any Way to set 2 cores with SMT? (4 threads) #32

Closed Neukom720 closed 2 years ago

Neukom720 commented 2 years ago

First of all wanted to thank everyone who has worked on this so far! Great work! But was wondering if there was a way to set 2 cores active with SMT active thus having 4 total threads? Might be a sweet spot to keep boost clock speeds high like 3.4-3.5ghz while keeping power usage low. Also some games, especially older titles, really like that extra boost clock because they were written for 1 or 2 cores. Just something I wanted to try in some games! Thanks Again Guys and hope we can maybe add this feature!

NGnius commented 2 years ago

Do you mean having all cores active, but only 2 of 4 having SMT enabled? Because that would be 6 threads total. If you mean having only 2 cores active, each with SMT enabled, just leave the SMT toggle on and move the threads slider down to 4.

Thanks for the love, always appreciated :)

Neukom720 commented 2 years ago

Yes exactly! For some reason I wasn't thinking of it that way sorry, and you guys do amazing stuff! Can't wait to see where the steam deck goes! It's just gonna get better and better, so glad I got mine a few weeks ago, it was crazy it took that long seeing I put my reservation in less than 24 hours after reservations opened!

diocletiann commented 1 year ago

Do you mean having all cores active, but only 2 of 4 having SMT enabled? Because that would be 6 threads total. If you mean having only 2 cores active, each with SMT enabled, just leave the SMT toggle on and move the threads slider down to 4.

Thanks for the love, always appreciated :)

First, thanks for this much needed plugin. Total game changer.

There may be value in exposing a hybrid configuration, some games have a heavy main or render thread that benefits from a dedicated core but also have several worker threads that may benefit from having more than 2-3 logical CPUs to work with. I think a per-core SMT toggle would allow users to watch the overlay and dial in the correct balance, if you see a logical CPU that has much higher utilization than the others you could quickly dedicate a core to it.