Yes, but not always. In general, sims benefit from faster clock speeds and more cores since those are required for the heavy calculations when worlds get complex. More and more AAA games are also starting to balance loads better between the CPU and GPU where possible as well. And if you bounce back and forth between a game and the rest of Windows, it can help speed that kind of multitasking a bit. Still, a lot of games, especially first-person shooters, still don't take advantage of more than four cores. Intel jumped to 10nm Alder Lake for its 12th-gen CPUs, which combined performance and power-efficient cores similar to Apple's M1 and M2 chips, and made a huge difference in battery life, as well as to system performance on battery, that has trickled down to gaming laptops.