About i5 processors

[mti78678]

Can I run games which release in 2019 or later using i5 processors.

 

[GhislainG]

Unless you know which games and their requirements (CPU and GPU), it's impossible to accurately answer that question now. Most will probably run (lower settings may be required), but an i5 may struggle with others.

 

[brian.h.schaefer]

This is a very difficult question to answer. I am assuming you are talking about the latest generation i5 CPUs. They are good CPUs that should last awhile. I have almost exclusively used i5 chips in all my builds over the past decade and each has served me well for about 3-4 years. With that said however, we have no idea what the gaming industry will do, system requirements wise, by 2019. Higher core multithreading is gaining steam in the gaming industry so the quad core non-hyperthreaded CPUs COULD present a significant bottleneck in the future.

tl dr --- Probably, settings will have to be flexible though.

 

[qasim1991]

I asked the same question about getting an i5 or i7 for gaming 4 years ago. I'm still running my i5 3570k and pretty happy with it.
Like Brian said, they typically should run the latest games for 3-4 years.

 

[TerryLaze]

This is a very difficult question to answer. I am assuming you are talking about the latest generation i5 CPUs. They are good CPUs that should last awhile. I have almost exclusively used i5 chips in all my builds over the past decade and each has served me well for about 3-4 years. With that said however, we have no idea what the gaming industry will do, system requirements wise, by 2019. Higher core multithreading is gaining steam in the gaming industry so the quad core non-hyperthreaded CPUs COULD present a significant bottleneck in the future.

tl dr --- Probably, settings will have to be flexible though.

GPU bottlenecks you way before the number of threads does,and that won't change for a long time,settings will have to be flexible due to the GPU not the CPU.
Until the number of threads in the consoles changes there won't be a big change in game threads.

 

[jpe1701]

This is a very difficult question to answer. I am assuming you are talking about the latest generation i5 CPUs. They are good CPUs that should last awhile. I have almost exclusively used i5 chips in all my builds over the past decade and each has served me well for about 3-4 years. With that said however, we have no idea what the gaming industry will do, system requirements wise, by 2019. Higher core multithreading is gaining steam in the gaming industry so the quad core non-hyperthreaded CPUs COULD present a significant bottleneck in the future.

tl dr --- Probably, settings will have to be flexible though.

GPU bottlenecks you way before the number of threads does,and that won't change for a long time,settings will have to be flexible due to the GPU not the CPU.
Until the number of threads in the consoles changes there won't be a big change in game threads.

Don't the consoles have 8 core chips? How are they threaded now?

 

[Nulgath]

Unless developers starting using more than 2-3 Cores as the main processing hub for games, it will still be relative.

 

[Sohom]

This question has been asked in the past and a lot of contradicting answers came through. Multi-cores has always been there and everytime, all would say soon pc gaming will start using multi cores but everytime was proved wrong. But in recent times, with intel and amd moving towards multi core chips, its a little different and very difficult to answer. Its an ambiguous situation in the gaming world now. It all depends on the game developers rather than intel, amd... although there's a high chance AMD premium APU's in the next two years may hit the gaming world by storm.

 

[TerryLaze]

Don't the consoles have 8 core chips? How are they threaded now?

Yes they do have 8 threads!
How do i5 handle games now? Fine?!
Then they will keep handling them fine at least until console core count changes.

 

[brian.h.schaefer]

This is a very difficult question to answer. I am assuming you are talking about the latest generation i5 CPUs. They are good CPUs that should last awhile. I have almost exclusively used i5 chips in all my builds over the past decade and each has served me well for about 3-4 years. With that said however, we have no idea what the gaming industry will do, system requirements wise, by 2019. Higher core multithreading is gaining steam in the gaming industry so the quad core non-hyperthreaded CPUs COULD present a significant bottleneck in the future.

tl dr --- Probably, settings will have to be flexible though.

GPU bottlenecks you way before the number of threads does,and that won't change for a long time,settings will have to be flexible due to the GPU not the CPU.
Until the number of threads in the consoles changes there won't be a big change in game threads.

This really depends on the game. Some games bottleneck the CPU, other bottleneck the GPU. Most of the time I would say it is the GPU CURRENTLY. But popular game engines are making it easier to utilize multithreading, so in the future it may be beneficial to have more cores. Does that mean you NEED a 6 core 12 thread processor...no.

 

[mti78678]

Thanks everyone.