Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here it's a video to see exactly how important a CPU really is for gaming now it's really tempting when you're building a new gaming computer go spend a lot of your budget on a core i5 however is that really necessary one of my favorite CPUs right now is the AMD athlon x4 750 K it's essentially just an 810 5800 K with the integrated graphics disabled however that still means you're getting a quad core CPU that can clock up to 4 gigahertz for only 85 bucks on the other hand we have the Intel Core i5 46 70 K now this is pretty much the default choice for most gaming pcs however at $230 it's well over double the price of the Athlon so is it worth it to test I used three graphics cards first of all we have the Radeon 7770 which you can find for about $100 and it's a solid entry-level card moving up to a mid-range card there's the Radeon 7870 which will set you back about $200 lastly for some complete overkill action we have one of the fastest graphics cards around a GTX 780 which comes in at 650 dollars to start let's see how each CPU matches up with a budget Radeon 7770 in the firestrike benchmark inside 3dmark we really don't see much of a difference with the core i5 narrowly edging out the Athlon battlefield 3 takes this a step further where the Athlon actually slightly edges out the core i5 although this is basically inside the margin of error Metro last light which is not only a very fun game but also basically a next-gen title gives a slight edge to the core i5 but it's clear the graphics card is the bottleneck here as well lastly we have Crysis 3 and this is the same story if you lose a couple frames per second with the Athlon but both CPUs handle it no problem if you're on a budget it seems pretty clear that for almost $150 less the Athlon 750 K is more than that CPU however what happens when we bump this up to a mid-range card with the Radeon 7870 we start to see a bit more of a difference here in fire strike as the Core i5 is able to stretch its legs a bit but even here we're only looking at an 11% improvement going back to Battlefield 3 it's clear that it's hardly CPU bound at all even with a 7870 as we're back into essentially a Thai Metro last light is the first game to really advantage of that extra CPU power is here we're looking at about a 30% performance increase interestingly Crysis 3 remains mostly held back by the graphics card with just under a 10% improvement when using the core i5 I think this comparison was the most interesting as the athan really did put in a good showing the only game that saw a substantial increase in performance was Metro considering the core i5 is well over double the price of the Athlon it kind of makes it a hard sell now for the fun part testing with the GTX 780 in firestrike the Core i5 is really able to stretch its legs beating out the Athlon easily with a 780 we finally see battlefield 3 start to get a little bottle necked but even here both CPUs handle it on ultra settings at well over 60 frames per second metro continues to really enjoy having that extra processing power delivering nearly double the performance with the core i5 meanwhile Crysis 3 continues to absolutely destroy GPUs so we see a smaller gain here with only about 25% more performance with the core i5 compared to the Athlon overall I'm impressed with how much you can get out of an $85 CPU now if you're building something very high-end something maybe like a gtx 770 or Radeon 7970 then it definitely does make sense to go with the core i5 however for a lot of builds I can definitely see skipping the core i5 instead going with the Athlon and using that money you save to pick up an SSD or maybe a bit of a beefier graphics card so what do you think is the core i5 still the clear obvious choice but do you think the Athlon might have a place in your next build definitely be sure to let me know what you think in the comments below thank you guys so much for watching if you enjoyed definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel so you're always notified anytime I post a new video anyway guys I will catch you next time