Is a high-end CPU a real need for a gaming computer?
Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dying Light
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Age: Inquisition is the most recent game from the popular action RPG franchise Dragon Age. It was launched in November 2014 and uses the Frostbite 3 engine with SpeedTree.
We ran the game at 1920 x 1080 (Full HD), with all quality options at “medium”, measuring three times the framerate with FRAPS.
The results below are expressed in frames per second and represent the arithmetical mean of the three collected results.
On Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Core i7-4770K had the same performance of the Core i3-4150, was 30% faster than the Pentium G3220, and 44% faster than the Core 2 Quad Q8300.
Dying Light
Dying Light is an open-world horror game launched in January 2015, using the Chrome Engine 6. We tested the performance at this game with all quality options at “medium”, at 1920 x 1080 (Full HD), measuring three times the framerate using FRAPS.
The results below are expressed in frames per second (fps) and they are the mean between the three collected results.
On this game, the Core i7-4770K was 8% faster than the Core i3-4150, 19% faster than the Pentium G3220, and 45% faster than the Core 2 Quad Q8300.