The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Benchmarked, Performance Review

[tarantula121651]

Honestly I can't even work out who you are talking to in that mess. I assume it's me.

You say the Core i3 chokes when compared to a non-overclocked FX-6300 and yet the Core i3 was faster when comparing minimum and average frame rates. More over with a GeForce GTX 980 on hand the Core i3 belted out 84fps which wasn't a great deal slower than the uber expensive processors.

What CPU resources does it use? It clearly doesn't use more than 4-cores and it really doesn't matter if you have a 2nd gen Core i5 or a 6th gen Core i5...

I guess the game does scale well since a Core i5 processor will deliver the same performance at 2.5GHz and 4.5GHz using a high-end GPU at a low-ish resolution.

Anyway I am not sure who it is that "just cant comprehend some things" so maybe you are right



That explains why they are broke today then

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/15/intel-q2-earnings-2015.html

Honestly I can't even work out who you are talking to in that mess. I assume it's me.

You say the Core i3 chokes when compared to a non-overclocked FX-6300 and yet the Core i3 was faster when comparing minimum and average frame rates. More over with a GeForce GTX 980 on hand the Core i3 belted out 84fps which wasn't a great deal slower than the uber expensive processors.

What CPU resources does it use? It clearly doesn't use more than 4-cores and it really doesn't matter if you have a 2nd gen Core i5 or a 6th gen Core i5...

I guess the game does scale well since a Core i5 processor will deliver the same performance at 2.5GHz and 4.5GHz using a high-end GPU at a low-ish resolution.

Anyway I am not sure who it is that "just cant comprehend some things" so maybe you are right



That explains why they are broke today then

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/15/intel-q2-earnings-2015.html

EA was voted worst company in the world 3 years in a row.

Its people like you who cannot comprehend that what they are doing is BAD for consumer.

It doesnt matter which gen you have because only thing different beween intels gens is fluff.

4 yrs old AMD competes with "newest and baddest" from intel for half the price.

http://wccftech.com/witcher-3-cpu-benchmarks-fx-63008350-i7-4790ki5-4690ki3-4130g3258-oc/

here is proper CPU bencmark and commentry instead uneducated crap you write without comprehension.

 

[Steve]

EA was voted worst company in the world 3 years in a row.

Its people like you who cannot comprehend that what they are doing is BAD for consumer.

It doesnt matter which gen you have because only thing different beween intels gens is fluff.

4 yrs old AMD competes with "newest and baddest" from intel for half the price.

http://wccftech.com/witcher-3-cpu-benchmarks-fx-63008350-i7-4790ki5-4690ki3-4130g3258-oc/

here is proper CPU bencmark and commentry instead uneducated crap you write without comprehension.

If your goal was to make yourself look stupid you can stop now, you have over achieved.

 

[tarantula121651]

I'm guessing you haven't checked out the latest AMD Fury reviews out then...

Let me guess, latest from this site rofl

 

[tarantula121651]

If your goal was to make yourself look stupid you can stop now, you have over achieved.

unfortunately your "article" beats anything, grand prize for stupidity, incomprehension and uneducated commentary

 

[tarantula121651]

"But once we hit 01:12 - a tour of Novigrad City on horseback... well, then we see some big changes. This area can hit 80% utilisation across all eight threads on a Core i7 4790K! The less powerful the CPU here, the more CPU stutter you encounter. The G3258 - overclocked to 4.5GHz - doesn't work out too well.

Also, check out the performance of the FX-6300 and FX-8350 starting from 01:26. In the initial cut-scenes they fall a little short of the Core i3 and i5, but once we hit the heavy Novigrad area, they compete very nicely - the FX 6300 moves ahead of the i3, while the FX 8350 is very close to the 4690K."

proper/relevant observations

You cannot even properly test the game. Let alone write coherent commentary on it.

but then, since youre paid by them, why would you?

 

[cliffordcooley]

Are you seriously challenging the competence of this sites material, with only one other site as a reference to support your claims?

 

[tarantula121651]

Are you seriously challenging the competence of this sites material, with only one other site as a reference to support your claims?

You mean incompetence?

It doesnt really needs challenging, its self explanatory.

Come on, prove im wrong and do PROPER CPU testing in area of Novigrad.

You do like, want to actually TEST CPUs, right?

 

[cliffordcooley]

You mean incompetence?

You don't even realize what you just said. You are the one challenging Steve's competence. Steve would then disregard your accusation of incompetence toward him. No one here is competing to be incompetent, so why would you challenge their incompetence?

BTW; you are the one doing the challenging, it is your position to prove him wrong. With only one site that is not very convincing.

 

[tarantula121651]

You don't even realize what you just said. You are the one challenging Steve's competence. Steve would then disregard your accusation of incompetence toward him. No one here is competing to be incompetent, so why would you challenge their incompetence?

As I said his "competence" doesnt need any challenging, his article and "commentary" are proof enough.

Its even better that you defend this guy, what, is he family or sponsored by Intel and brings nice little gifts to you?

Because nobody can be THAT thick. Well, nobody who is let to actually write stuff on what you want to claim is "reputable" rofl

As I said do PROPER CPU testing on WItcher 3. because others did.

 

[Steve]

You don't even realize what you just said. You are the one challenging Steve's competence. Steve would then disregard your accusation of incompetence toward him. No one here is competing to be incompetent, so why would you challenge their incompetence?

BTW; you are the one doing the challenging, it is your position to prove him wrong. With only one site that is not very convincing.

I think it's best to ignore this guy, he is clearly trolling.

This review was published around the same time as ours..
http://gamegpu.ru/rpg/rollevye/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-test-gpu.html

They also tested with SLI which is even more CPU demanding...
http://gamegpu.ru/images/remote/htt...r_2_Assassins_of_Kings-test-witcher3_proz.jpg

Another CPU test can be found here...
http://pclab.pl/art63116-49.html

The Core i3 beats the FX-6000 series in this test with the 290X as well, the minimums are considerably better.
http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/chaostheory/2015/05/w3/charts6/w3a_ultra_cpu.png

More testing done here...
http://www.digitalstorm.com/unlocked/witcher-3-wild-hunt-graphics-and-cpu-benchmark-idnum356/

Note the CPU results...
http://www.digitalstormonline.com/unlocked/images/articles/Nav/Articles/Witcher3-Benchmarks-CPU.jpg

There is a detailed Witcher 3 performance thread here and gamer's are commenting on how well the open world game plays with a low-end CPU...

http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/n...enchmark-live-ticker-aktuell-14-gpus-100.html

More CPU scaling results that align with my own...
http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/a...chmark-live-ticker-aktuell-14-gpus-tw3cpu.png

I have tested more of the game and didn't find results that were nearly as extreme as what was shown in that video. Still I am happy to take another look at it, the game has been patched over half a dozen times since we ran those early tests.

 

[Mister_K]

Honestly I can't even work out who you are talking to in that mess. I assume it's me.

Tell me about it. I just got the notification and I got extremely confused :/ lol ...

 

[NightAntilli]

As an FX6300 user I am really happy with how optimized TW3 is : This should be the standard for modern open world games Rockstar , Ubisoft , Bethesda and Rocksteady should take note.

Well optimized for FX processors or simply doesn’t require much CPU processing power? If the game was a heavy CPU user you wouldn’t find the FX processors near the top of the graph no matter how well the game was optimized.

The game simply doesn’t use much CPU processing power, the FX-8350 only saw 40% load while the Core i7 processor that we tested with saw less than 10% load on average.

Interesting, because Eurogamer found something different, specifically in the Novigrad area. There, an i7 had 80% load, and the FX-8350 had a higher minimum fps than a 4690k.

I think the game is simply good at distributing the load across cores, like it should be.