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sc94597 on 15 January 2025
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sc94597 said:

Was able to get the game to run on a 4-core 4-thread, 3.1 Ghz, i5-7300HQ at 1080p (with FSR-performance) 30fps in Windows 11. I pretty much just set everything to low, and didn't really optimize the graphics. Probably could've toggled on better graphics settings since the CPU was indeed a bottleneck at times (but most of the time it hovered around 60-80% utilization, with 90%+ GPU utilization) on the GTX 1060 Max-Q. Still was able to get a consistent-enough 30fps. 1% lows were around 27 FPS. Other than those drops, no noticeable stuttering. 

Even though synthetic benchmarks tend to flatter ARM processors, that i5 is still faster than a Snapdragon 8350 in PassMark, which in turn is exactly the same CPU architecture as the Switch 2 (1-3-4 cortex cores) with twice as high clocks.

Still a long way to go in terms of optimization, IMO.

They're pretty close, with the 7300HQ having 10% higher multi-core and the 8350 having 27% higher single-core.  

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Snapdragon+8350&id=3930

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-7300HQ+%40+2.50GHz&id=2922

But we're expecting the Switch 2 to have quite a different configuration from the 8350 anyway, based on a homogenous A78C setup in a single, 8-core cluster. 

At similar clocks to the 7300HQ a 2 cluster A78C setup has about twice the performance of the i5 7300HQ (and nearly 25% higher IPC.) 

1010 single-core and 5335 multi-core in Geekbench 5

https://x.com/TheGalox_/status/1462968579150729222/photo/1

versus 657 single-core and 2483 multi-core in Geekbench 5 (edited scores because I just ran Geekbench 5 on my laptop.) 

At 35-40% of the performance (assuming linear frequency-performance scaling, which we probably shouldn't, but it's all we got), we're looking at a multi-core ~ 2000 for an A78C @1Ghz-1.1Ghz vs. 2483 for the i5 7300HQ. That's about 80% of the performance of my i5 7300HQ. 

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I'll re-run the test with turbo boost off and the cores pegged at the 2.5 Ghz baseline and see if I can still get around 30 fps. 

Last edited by sc94597 - on 15 January 2025