The view that gaming is an application that is not caught a single thread of influence by the number of processor cores clearly no longer relevant. Modern games are able to take advantage of every extra cores of your processor. Although not all games can perform more optimally with the number of cores is more, the current trend of gaming applications leads to more use of the main processor core. Look at the value of the test 3D Mark Vantage and Resident Evil 5 (both are applications that can utilize many processor cores) from the HD 5770 below. There, it appears that the relevant test score was higher in the processor that has more cores. 3D Mark Vantage performance recorded an increase of about 17%, while Resident Evil runs about 50% faster on Athlon X4 II 620. In fact, the Phenom X2 550 II has a much higher clock speed (3.1 GHz, 2.6 GHz vs. Athlon X4 II at 620) plus Level 3 cache, but in this case the number of cores is more decisive. Some games, especially with older engines, it tends to be more like the frequency of the processor rather than the number of cores, but then again, gaming trends lead to the utilization of processor cores. Great if the processor has a lot of cores that run at high speed.
| Processor | 3D Mark Vantage | Resident Evil 5 |
| Phenom II X2 550 (Dual Core) | 9462 | 40.9 |
| Athlon II X4 620 (Quad Core) | 11098 | 61.6 |
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