With the loss of Anandtech, TechReport, HardCOP and other old technical sites, I'm glad to see a new publisher who can keep up with the older style stuff.
[1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/9005-...
Using it as TCM ram seems super useful.
Although you would need to fight/request it from the OS, so technically I see why they might ditch it.
64 cores is a high-end gaming rig. Civilization VII won't run smoothly on less than 16.
https://i.imgur.com/YlJFu4s.png
Whether the bottleneck is memory bandwidth (2x6000 MHz), unoptimized locking, small batch sizes, or something else it doesn't seem to be related to core count. It's also not waiting on the GPU much here, the 4090 is seeing even less utilization than the CPU. Hopefully utilization actually scales better with 7, not just splits up a lot.
As a rule I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of the stuff Civ 6 is doing can't be parallelized at all, but then for that remaining 10% you get a 16x speedup with 16 cores. And they're underutilized on average but there are bursts where you get a measurable speedup from having 16 cores, and that speedup is strictly linear with the number of cores. 6 cores means that remaining 10% will be less than half as fast vs. having 16 cores. And this is consistent with observing 30% CPU usage I think.
[1] Fragmentation, at best C++ dialects, no practical compiler tech to transparently GPU offload, etc
Only recently I managed to build a PC that will run Civ 6 smoothly during late game on huge map
Tangentially related, but I need to go check a18 civ 6benchmarks. The experience on my a15 with small map sizes was surprisingly good.
