FX 8350 vs i5 7400

[Gabriel_101]

I have seen quite a lot benchmarks showing that i5 has better frame rates, but why isn't it then on recommended CPUs for Battlefield 1? It's showing i7 and fx 8350 for recommended and the price difference between those is huge. So my question is, why is he FX on recommended even though it has lower performance than i5? Or are the benchmarks wrong?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

It's an old recommended requirement , many aren't updated over time.

 

[failboat]

Those recommendations were made before the game came out. I would ignore them and just look for benchmarks. The newer AMD stuff is way better. FPS is mostly GPU at the end of the day anyway. Tom's cpu recommendations at different price points are a good place to start and the budget builds.

 

[razamatraz]

BF1 is a thread heavy game and i5 processors do tend to cause stutter in certain areas when there are a lot of other players present. This game really does function better with more than 4 physical or logical cores. The FX-8350 though is not going to outperform a Kaby Lake i5. It's single core performance is just too slow and even heavily multithreaded games are still limited by single core speed most of the time.

Recommendations aren't based on perfectly comparable hardware they are based on what's available. When BF1 was launching there was no Ryzen so they had to give an AMD recommendation and went with the relatively common 8350 which actually performs very well for the price.

If they were giving recommendations for BF1 now it would probably be Ryzen R3 1200 and Intel i5 4 core Haswell (4460) or higher for minimum with R5 1400, intel i7 Haswell (4770) or higher or i5 CoffeeLake (or higher) for recommended.

 

[agello24]

bf1 was specs where not changed. bf1 had been in the works for 2-4yrs. so the test cpus they ran them on where intel i7' and AMD fx 8350, since thats what most people had at the time of the making. the i5 and i7 are gamers choice and is what is widely programmed on. the fx 8350 is not a bad cpu, just poorly optimized for gaming by the programmers.

 

[valeman2012]

Those recommendations were made before the game came out. I would ignore them and just look for benchmarks. The newer AMD stuff is way better. FPS is mostly GPU at the end of the day anyway. Tom's cpu recommendations at different price points are a good place to start and the budget builds.

Since Intel i5 8500 or i5 8600 coming out with the H370, H310 and B360 Motherboards....he should wait for those...coming near.