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sc94597 on 02 March 2015
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Kami said:
sc94597 said:

AC: Unity, Watch Dogs, Dragon Age Inquisition, Far Cry 4 say otherwise. I like how you mentioned games that aren't even demanding on PC. Yet, even those games you mentioned perform better on the equivalent PC. Optimization won't help it when new games are dropping to 20fps so early in this generation (AC:Unity.) 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-assassins-creed-unity-patch-analysed

"The results? While we fully believe that Assassin's Creed Unity sees certain boosts to performance in specific scenarios, what's clear is that overall frame-rates only see a small improvement overall across the run of play. In our clips this amounts to a 1.95 per cent boost in single-player (25.07fps average vs the pre-patch 24.59fps) and only 1.6 per cent in co-op (24.29fps vs 23.90fps). As gameplay isn't absolutely matched, we consider this to be within the margin of error."

AC creed runs like crap everywhere. Ubisoft releases broken games. The 1.6 CPU isn't hindering the game dev kit software and lazy devs are. My notebook with an APU runs games decently but my desktop with an i5 dual core paired with a 3 way sli GTX 980 runs every game maxed out. I have a weak sauce CPU but as you say CPU based games I'm running maxed out. I never said PC games aren't demanding, I said games are not CPU intensive. 
I would be playing at 4k but there's no point since I don't have a 4k monitor. 

Yet it runs even worst on consoles than PC's of comparable hardware in everything, except the CPU. It isn't the only game either. Watch Dogs, Dragon Age Inquisiton, and Far Cry 4 all are the same story. Your APU probably would run these games similar to a console considering what they have are modified AMD APU's. If you are saying your i5 is weak, then that is riduclous. Almost any i5 will be above average and the most recommend CPU for gaming. Having said that, some games do benefit from the hyperthreading that i7's provide, but not many do yet.  It is obvious that recent games have been pushing CPU's. I3's are slowly beoming obsolete as more games need more cores, and AMD's lineup has been demolished in terms of performance because of their low IPC. And i5 is pretty much a minimum requirement to max games or even run them at good framrates, and the low-end, low clocked, low IPC, APU's in the consoles can't keep up.