Wolfenstein, yet another game recommending an i7

[Almercenary]

I completely agree with nothing you have said. It's more of a bad port cover up. If its getting ported they won't take use of all the cores. The only game that really takes advantage IMO is Arma, which is native on PC. An i7 xxx is about the same as a 3770k or whatever, give it 5+ years and they may start using 6 cores in ports.

I'm pretty sure my i5 2400 will run it fine at 60fps. Well wait and see though. If they make it a hard limit though...,

[Mindtrickz]

Wait, i7, GTX 460, and 4GB of RAM... I call bullshit. Who has an i7 with a 460 and 4GB of RAM and uses it like a gaming rig?

 

What game uses more than 4Gb of ram?

[flibberdipper]

What game uses more than 4Gb of ram?

When I played Battlefield 4 a while ago on my friend's PC it soaked up cose to 4GB.

[wilbso]

I'm not entirely sure I agree with the original post. I mean, if you have an i7 to game on, then thats great, you've pretty much secured a good position for future games, but saying you 'need' an i7 is not entirely true. You can easily run BF4 on an i5 on ultra settings and get a decent consistent FPS providing you have a good graphics card. And as mentioned before, it would take a bit of effort to code the game for hyper threading, providing they even have knowledge about hyper threading. I don't think that they are going to put in any more effort to code it just for hyper threading, unless Intel or any other brands decided to do some massive sponsor for them or something. Idk.

[Rageodontist]

When pigs fly.

 

Seriously, though, when games are making use of 12 core or 6 cores plus hyper-threading. So, in a long, long time. That or a game is so poorly optimized that nothing can even run it beyond 20 FPS.

Sounds like Dark Souls 1.

[infamous_last]

What game uses more than 4Gb of ram?

OS has RAM requirements too...

[nicholaswillems]

It's not because these consoles have 8 cores that PC actually need 8 cores/threads as well

[Victorious Secret]

What game uses more than 4Gb of ram?

Battlefield 4 loves having as much as possible, you'll be happy with 16GB there.

Also the OS.

I wouldn't game with less than 8gb these days.

[jmaster299]

This is tech news and needs to be moved back to the correct section.

[Vrbas]

AMD doesnot have i7 equivalent.

 

my friend has FX 8320 and on 4.7 GHZ it had 26k score in vantage my i7 3770 stock score is 28k

 

also he has GTX 660 and it's score was 22k when mine is 26k 

 

AMD CPU architecture sucks

The 8320 is $159 on amazon and newegg. and the i7 3770 is $300+ at those stores. I sure as hell hope it performs better or I'd feel pretty bad for you.

[VSG]

This is tech news and needs to be moved back to the correct section.

 

No, this is an opinion based on unfounded facts as of this time. Definitely not tech news in any way!

[Linus_torvalds]

The 8320 is $159 on amazon and newegg. and the i7 3770 is $300+ at those stores. I sure as hell hope it performs better or I'd feel pretty bad for you.

do not be i bought mine in my country new for 390 ლარი (wich in USD=220$)

[deathjester]

These requirements are bogus as people have already pointed out, and likely are in all these games asking for an I7. Even if this game was Mantle/Dx 12 and it would have to be mantle/dx 12 on steroids for single core not to matter at all, The I7 930 at 2.8ghz (Nehalem came out in what 2008) is the I7 they are recommending and it has a multi bench cinebench r 15 score of  448. Seeing this is not a Mantle/Dx 12 game and the core utilization is garbage like all DX 11 games and single core matters more and gaming is not rendering? It is stupid to even address this but...

 

I am literally over double a I7-930 in multicore at 4.5 on a 4770k. As I said a modern I7 is complete overkill. I can literally play two of these "next gen games" at the same time on a 4770k and if we had a really good Mantle working on all games, a overclocked 8320/50 probably could as well. Don't fall into this marketing unless you are planning to multibox several clients on an MMO...

 

Any modern quad should be fine and the I3 with HT should be fine as well. The CPU's in the "next gen" consoles are garbage. When we get optimization that freakin I7-930 might be overkill. Hell a Q Quad on a OC could probably play this game ok, since nehalem wasn't much faster per core. Sandy is when single core went through the roof. Anything with a low Nehalem recommendation? Don't worry about it.

 

For the AMD people? Nehalem is almost clock for clock what a 8320/50 is. They are recommending a under 3ghz 8320 pretty much lol.  You will blow this game away on cpu. Same goes for 6300FX. You kill these requirements.

[totjup5]

Anything that runs on an Xbox one does not require an I7

[DaRk0]

@OP

You're forgetting that consoles are not using all 8 cores for games. 8 cores that have laughable performance compared to i5/i7 and 8350 even with low-level API.

I can run BF4@ultra settings while running Valley bench in the background and my i7 won't even blink (yeah, I actually tried this ).

Future multi-core optimization in games will not happen because of consoles, it will happen because of PC.