| pokoko said: AMD six-core? Why my AMD quad-core is definitely better than some Intel quad-cores. |
AMD has lower per-core performance, the Thuban's IPC (Phenom 2 x6) is actually lower than the later model Core 2 chips released 6+ years ago, Bulldozer and in-turn Piledriver is lower than that.
Of course AMD makes up for that deficit with higher clockspeeds and more cores, which the game engine will take advantage of, scaling beyond 4 threads in say a 64 player Multi-player match, Intel doesn't need as many cores, because, well. It essentially does more work with less cores than AMD.
If you are single player only gamer, then probably like Battlefield 3, you could run the game on pretty much any CPU made within the last decade, it's just not that demanding on the CPU.
Interested to see how the game runs on my AMD rig though, with an FX 8120 @ 4.8ghz and Dual Radeon 6950's unlocked into 6970's, the GPU's are getting a little long in the teeth these days being several years old and trying to push games at 5760x1080.
I'll probably be severely video memory limited on my main rig though. :(
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