intel core Intel confirms Alder Lake-S and Alder Lake-P specs, pushes out optimization guide for game developers The company says multi-threaded games will benefit from Alder Lake's hybrid ...

TL;DR: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney reveals Unreal Engine 6 is 2-3 years away, promising major upgrades like enhanced multi-threaded performance and unified development across platforms.

Multiple threads are useful for improving the performance of multi-threaded applications. Additional cores and their accompanying thread will always be beneficial for multi-threaded applications.

Intel's next-gen Lunar Lake CPUs at 17W will have a huge 1.5x increase in multi-threading performance over Meteor Lake-U, and that's without HT.