Dose CPU really affect my gaming performance(FPS)?

[857849718]

This is what i observerd on Battlefield Hardline server(1080p,ultra settings)

empty server: about 40(sometime may suddenly drop to 4)

full server: about 20

and i saw one video on youtube:

He can run the game in about 60fps

 

This is my PC Specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 740 Quad Core Processor

Mother Board: ASUS A55M-A

Graphic Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming 2G

RAM: Crucial 8GB DDR3

Hard Drive: Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 SATA Disk

                   ST1000DM 003-1CH162 SATA Disk

[Comessy]

CPU will only affect your gaming performance if it is bottlenecking your gpu

 

Check if your gpu is at 100% load in game, if so then you are fine, if not it may be time to upgrade your processor

[Atmos]

Yes, Yes it does. Especially on BF4, that game can use the CPU cores like theres no tomarrow.

 

That cpu is fairly old now, might consider an upgrade, though its a good match with the 270X if i do say so, neither should bottleneck either. 

[theelitegamer]

Look at it like this. The GPU can only run what the CPU can handle.

[857849718]

so how to check my gpu is 100% loading?

[Poster]

In multiplayer games like that the CPU takes on much more responsibility than if you were just playing alone in a campaign mode.  Yes, you're losing frames with that CPU while playing a multiplayer game.

[IGetMoreAssThanAToiletSeat]

Msi after burner. It will show all the info fan speed temperature, including gpu usage. If it isnt bottlenecking then i think its time for a warranty rma because im pretty sure the 270x can run bf4 on ultra

[Wojethebest]

if you press alt control and delite at the same time then press start task maneger and then performance you can see cpu usage and if its at 100% and your gpu (seen in msi afterburner) is not at 100% then its bottleneking your performance

[857849718]

CPU will only affect your gaming performance if it is bottlenecking your gpu

 

Check if your gpu is at 100% load in game, if so then you are fine, if not it may be time to upgrade your processor

omg, only 50 or lower, so if i change to i7 will my gaming performance better?

[Comessy]

omg, only 50 or lower, so if i change to i7 will my gaming performance better?

You dont need an i7, an i5 will be just fine

[Mattyd7829]

Do you have anything that may be running intensively in the backgroud? I was using Display Fusion and when my wallpaper changed my frame rate would plummet for a short time.

[Jedicake]

You dont need an i7, an i5 will be just fine

Even an i3 would. Arguably

[857849718]

Do you have anything that may be running intensively in the backgroud? I was using Display Fusion and when my wallpaper changed my frame rate would plummet for a short time.

yes, actually you're right, my wallpaper change every 30 sec

[Mattyd7829]

yes, actually you're right, my wallpaper change every 30 sec

Have you tried disabling it?

[Overkilled]

Your gpu isn't the strongest either

[857849718]

Have you tried disabling it?

disabled, but seems not working

[SleathX1]

Yes, in heavily Multiplayer games, your CPU, X4 740, is hard at work especially in 64 player servers. The first thing that I would recommend with any BF game is disabling Origin In-Game.

[D2ultima]

Check if your gpu is at 100% load in game, if so then you are fine, if not it may be time to upgrade your processor

100% GPU load does not mean it's performing optimally. You can be at 100% GPU load with processor A and then put in processor B that's 30% faster and get 10+ extra FPS.

[Opcode]

The CPU can be a culprit of not attaining acceptable frame rates. It's not exactly the fault of the CPU but the fault of the graphics stack. With the graphics stack being entirely serialized it means single core performance is most critical in ANY game. With slower performing cores it will take longer for the CPU to dispatch GPU workloads frequently. These jobs can end up queued behind even the games own logic which increases frame time. Higher the frame time the lower the FPS you're going to get. Moving from an Athlon x4 740 to an i3-4150 will likely yield you FPS gains simply because of the sheer IPC gain. Faster the core, faster the work gets done, lower the frame time meaning more frames being rendered every second.

[857849718]

The CPU can be a culprit of not attaining acceptable frame rates. It's not exactly the fault of the CPU but the fault of the graphics stack. With the graphics stack being entirely serialized it means single core performance is most critical in ANY game. With slower performing cores it will take longer for the CPU to dispatch GPU workloads frequently. These jobs can end up queued behind even the games own logic which increases frame time. Higher the frame time the lower the FPS you're going to get. Moving from an Athlon x4 740 to an i3-4150 will likely yield you FPS gains simply because of the sheer IPC gain. Faster the core, faster the work gets done, lower the frame time meaning more frames being rendered every second.

so you mean i can just use a single core cpu?

[Opcode]

so you mean i can just use a single core cpu?

You'll get horrible frame rates due to resources being hogged by the game code itself (physics, ai, logic, etc). Buy any modern microprocessor you wish as long as it's rocking four cores or more. Going with an Intel option will likely yield higher frames even in scenarios where the GPU is already at max utilization.

 

Should of worded that differently. Single thread performance is key.

[D3MON]

This is what i observerd on Battlefield Hardline server(1080p,ultra settings)

empty server: about 40(sometime may suddenly drop to 4)

full server: about 20

and i saw one video on youtube:

you should probably do the testing yourself rather than what you hear on forums, thats what i do.

from my own testing the bf francise is one of the best engines out there, if you have a fast dual core or slow quad core it will run great (the dual core will be pinned at 99% but the average's wont change much) you could run this game on a q6600.

as for what fps you get will depend on resolution and settings but with that card it should be good for 55fps average, thast what jayztwocents got in his 270 testing.fx4300 is pretty much same cpu and with a titanx. my g3258 gets its ass handed to it when compared to an fx4300 in titles like this.

http://www.techspot.com/review/979-battlefield-hardline-benchmarks/page5.html

the engine can scale across x number of cores which no one is maxed and single core performance doesnt matter, only older games or free to play mmo's which are poorly coded by a small team on a budget use single cores but in those titles the gpu is usually wasted.

[Reaper_Man]

This is what i observerd on Battlefield Hardline server(1080p,ultra settings)

empty server: about 40(sometime may suddenly drop to 4)

full server: about 20

and i saw one video on youtube:

He can run the game in about 60fps

 

This is my PC Specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 740 Quad Core Processor

Mother Board: ASUS A55M-A

Graphic Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming 2G

RAM: Crucial 8GB DDR3

Hard Drive: Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 SATA Disk

                   ST1000DM 003-1CH162 SATA Disk

so far your ram is good,dont know much about amd hardware (i am using intel/nvidia) but i can tell you that CPU can effect the fps depending on the game engine(varies from game to game)...

 

i see you have a quad core cpu i think that a quad core cpu is enough for most games so you may want to see if its the gpu that is causing the low frame rate.

Other option than upgrading is lowering the settings of the game and testing untill you get 60fps

 

I hope this helps

[857849718]

so far your ram is good,dont know much about amd hardware (i am using intel/nvidia) but i can tell you that CPU can effect the fps depending on the game engine(varies from game to game)...

 

i see you have a quad core cpu i think that a quad core cpu is enough for most games so you may want to see if its the gpu that is causing the low frame rate.

Other option than upgrading is lowering the settings of the game and testing untill you get 60fps

 

I hope this helps

actually i dont think my gpu is bad

[857849718]

so far your ram is good,dont know much about amd hardware (i am using intel/nvidia) but i can tell you that CPU can effect the fps depending on the game engine(varies from game to game)...

 

i see you have a quad core cpu i think that a quad core cpu is enough for most games so you may want to see if its the gpu that is causing the low frame rate.

Other option than upgrading is lowering the settings of the game and testing untill you get 60fps

 

I hope this helps

but anyway, if i change to i7, will my fps increase