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sc94597 on 02 March 2015
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Kami said:
sc94597 said:

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. 

I doubt a Dual Core i5 with no hyper threading thats clocked at 2.6ghz with 4mb of L3 cache is all that impressive. My old GPU (260x) ran games like Skyrim on low setting at 1080p around 30 - 40 fps. I've had my CPU for almost 5 years now been thinking about upgrading to a newer i3 with hyper threading, turbo boost and such. But I upgraded my GPU (obviously to a much more high end expensive solution) and now I can run the same skyrim game at max setting with everything turned on at 1080p and I get around 70 fps. I can run far cry 4 maxed out at 1080p around the same fps. I'd argue based on experience that a monster GPU solution can make up for a weaker CPU. My brother has an amd fx 4-core with a Titan Z he recently got. He plays Shadow of Mordor at 1440p at around 84fps with his set up. 

In that case you can't even run a game like Dragon Age Inquisition with your CPU. The game runs like 18 fps with stuttering on two-threaded processors (I would know my G3258 which I got for emulation until I get a broadwell i5 or i7 barely plays it.) Far Cry 4 needs an injector to get working with two-threaded processors, and you see huge performance gains with an i3 (about 20 fps) and a quad core (about 30 fps.)  Skyrim is a game from 2011. Of course your CPU, is up to par for it. And just because these games run great doesn't mean they aren't being bottlenecked. With an i5 your brother could probably run Shadows of Mordor at 120fps with his GPU.