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You should read better into that article. In Metro 2033 all 6 cores of the test bed are being maxed out, and the CPU is clocked at 4 Ghz. It's still far behind the GPU and Metro does not have a lot of physics goign on anyway. Difinately not compared to the level of physics that Cadaveca is talking about, which I guess is the same I want. If you add SSE2 you'd get 10-20% more performance which would change nothing.
Physics are better run on the GPU because that kind of task is much better run on a lot of cores with superfast local memory and that's what a GPU is. You say you want your 6/12/24 cores being used, but as I see it that's your problem, maybe you should start thinking about spending less on the CPU and more on the GPU as that is the future. Future battles will occur between integrated GPU (Fusion and fusion-like architectures) and discreet GPU and not GPU vs CPU, because CPU as we know it will move to a secondary/auxiliary role. There's so very little tasks that require big conventional CPUs (multi-core) even today, that cannot be done much better on the GPU...
Bottom line is, we need fast CPUs, but current CPUs are not fast per se, the actual cores are only barely faster than what 2005 CPUs were, we just have 4/6/12 of them crammed together and that's not fast, that's parallel, and if a task is parallel enough to be adecuate to max out a current 6 core CPU, it's most probably adecuate for GPU computing too and 90% of the times the GPU will be orders of magnitude faster, more power efficient and significantly cheaper to produce.
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT070510142143&p=2
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