Single-core turbo Zen2 model
Single-core turbo Zen2 model
Your 3600 seems to handle all cores smoothly in War Thunder, but it struggles with single-core performance. Check if your settings or game configuration might be limiting its capabilities.
The game engine in War Thunder can handle multiple CPU cores and makes use of all available ones. Have you attempted to assign a specific core count preference for War Thunder to utilize more efficiently?
It’s designed for single-core performance only. Running other programs even moderately active can prevent it from reaching its full potential. War thunder is built for multi-core processing, so you’re hitting the multi-core boost limit. If you recall, it likely utilizes all available cores, maximizing frequency. The issue is mostly about adjusting clock speeds in the BIOS rather than fixing anything else.
My 9600K mostly stayed at 4.3GHz, using the all-core boost consistently in games unless it was overclocked. Recent titles are designed for multiple threads, which is beneficial. Leveraging more than one core gives better performance compared to boosting just a single core to 5GHz.
Your Intel 10600 appears to run in War Thunder, and the Rivatuner OSD confirms it. The main difference seems to be that your Ryzen processor uses a Nvidia graphics card, which can affect performance compared to a traditional Radeon setup. I understand this might involve more CPU usage due to DX12 or Vulkan optimizations.
The single core enhancement remains independent of the graphics card brand you choose (AMD or Nvidia). The game will continue to use four cores for War Thunder, but I recommend limiting it to just one core for the purpose of enabling single-core optimization.
In fact, Nvidia employs a multithreaded software scheduler running on the CPU, whereas AMD relies on a hardware scheduler built into the card. Therefore, even if the game is essentially single-threaded, an Nvidia user might still experience reduced boost clocks because certain cores are dedicated to handling the Nvidia driver.