Random_Matt on 08 November 2015
| Arkaign said: Going by PC history, Bethesda's engines have been very reliant on high IPC since Morrowind. At the same time, they are very poorly optimized for multicore. A sandy-bridge dual-core i3 is faster at Skyrim/Fallout 3/NV than a hex-core Phenom II. On the console side of things, the Cell was a bitch to optimize for, while the IBM CPU in the 360 was a better match for their engines. So my guess is that the low-IPC CPU side of the PS4/X1 is just weak on this engine unless they really get it retweaked/rebuilt enough to balance on more cores. The CPU side of Jaguar is LITERALLY an 8-core netbook level processor. The IPC is horrendous, so for things to work well, the multithreading has to be really on point. If the CPU and not the GPU is the problem, and I'm pretty confident in that guess, then the X1 should enjoy a slight advantage by having the same processor power, but at 1.75ghz instead of 1.6ghz. So in all probability, we will see very similar, but slightly better performance from X1 in this title. That is, if the slower system memory doesn't end up negating some of that (which should be neglible). |
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