CPU Functioning

Equally you lot might expect, the dual-cadre processors struggled with the minimum frame rates dipping to and beneath 30fps. Fifty-fifty AMD'southward Athlon X4 860K struggled and while it was improve than the slower clocked Intel dual-core processors, the minimum wasn't great when using the Titan 10. AMD's FX-series also suffered from rather low minimum frame rates. Granted the FX-9590 didn't dip below 70fps, it was nonetheless much slower than the Core i7 processors.

Here we meet that when information technology comes to the minimum frame rate, CPU frequency is extremely important. The move from 4GHz to 4.5GHz netted nine% more than performance.

Compared to the Core i7-6700K, the 6600K is notably down on the minimum frame rate. Even at iv.5GHz, the 6700K was a little over 50% faster which is quite unexpected. The 6700K was only 3% faster when comparing the boilerplate frame rate simply those minimums are surprising.

Not merely the minimum only also the average frame rate really suffers on the FX-series. At 4.5GHz the FX-9590 still can't match the 6700K running at merely 2.5GHz. In fact, the minimum frame charge per unit was still 24% lower!

Something that actually shocked us about the CPU performance in Gears of War 4 was how much slower the Core i5 processors were compared to the Core i7 models. Having tested with the Titan X we decided to see how things look with a Radeon GPU, the Fury X no less. The above results are more in line with that we were expecting to see as the i5 is merely 5fps slower when looking at the minimum and 1fps for the average. The FX-8350 was likewise very competitive here while the G1820 produced the same event seen previously.

Now with the GTX 980 Ti, a Maxwell GPU, we decided to run the same tests. The margins were much the same here. I wonder what a lower end Pascal GPU looks like, let's notice out...

Interestingly here the margin between the Core i5 and i7 processors grows once once again. Using the GTX 980 Ti, a GPU of similar performance the Core i7 was only 5% faster when comparing the minimum frame rate. All the same, with the GTX 1070 that margin grew to 19% in favor of the Core i7. The Cadre i5 was 2fps slower for the minimum while the i7 was 9fps faster. Disabling features such equally async compute didn't change these margins.