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Red Dead Redemption 2 Stuttering, Hyperthreading, & Async Compute on PC



This benchmark looks at Red Dead Redemption 2 PC mysteries involving stuttering, the 9700K (and hyperthreading), and async compute in XML settings.
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Our other Red Dead Redemption 2 PC content is below!

– #RDR2 Graphics Settings Deep-Dive:
– RDR2 CPU Benchmark:
– RDR2 GPU Benchmark:

Our benchmarks for this video focus on some special use cases and explore the mysteries of Red Dead 2’s PC release. The 9700K previously exhibited horrendous stuttering at framerates above a certain FPS threshold, but we hadn’t previously defined that threshold (and this video does). We also related it back to the GTA V Intel i5 quad-core stutering issues, and have finally pinpointed that, no, this is not an issue specific to Intel or to a lack of hyperthreading, but rather a thread deficit and…

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