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everyone I'm Steve from gamers Nexus dotnet and this is our CPU benchmark for Fallout 4 which is now a full day of old so obviously that means the game has become irrelevant in the eyes of the greater games industry but we have a bit of content left in Fallout 4 before moving on to whatever the next things may be and some of that content includes our CPU benchmark which I just conducted you can find the full article link in the description below and the CPU benchmark basically just takes all the CPUs that we had available and if it's not on the charts then we probably don't have it so the CPUs tests that include the g3 - 580 at the low end for Intel the 810 78 70 K at the low end for Andy and then a number of i3 i5 Zeiss Evans and and the FX CPUs including the FX 9000 and 8000 series so that's our listing of products you can check the full article in the description below for more methodology on how we conducted the tests but we did opt to use the gtx 980ti hybrid which is an EVGA card and we use that because it's our best performing single GPU solution so we wanted to obviously eliminate GPU bottlenecks wherever possible now fallout 4 is pretty aggressive on the GPU consumption so even the 980ti hybrid does bottleneck at some points like the higher settings and high resolutions so it's not entirely possible to eliminate a bottleneck on the GPU right now with fallout 4 but we got pretty close in terms of just being able to see the absolute performance data between the CPUs and get a good feeling for where everything falls our hypothesis going into this was that the i5 and i7 would be pretty similar in performance just from a purely theoretical standpoint that's kind of what I was expecting going into the test so we tested the i3 41:30 the i5 4690k and the i7 4790k which are all the same generation CPUs alongside our other CPUs tested and looked to them to determine where the differences of lie and the i3 I was expecting to perform pretty well but certainly lower than the i5 and i7 the i5 and i7 I was expecting to perform very similarly so let's look at the data and see how it actually panned out and 1440p at Ultra is a fairly GPU intensive test so do keep that in mind but we still wanted to run it and see what the Delta was between the CPUs with the provision that there would be some GPU limitation the 1440 ultra test shows the FPS output is limited to about 83 FPS on the 4790k and the 59 30 K and if we move down to I 5 CPUs the 6600 K and 4690k the framerate drops a considerable amount at 15.6 percent so that's a pretty big Delta it still remains above 60 FPS though and that's all that really matters for this game because of the game time in physics ty fps so considering this greater than 60 fps playback for anything other than benchmarking isn't really too important and once you change the GPU from the 980ti hybrid to something else that 15.5 80% Delta could come into play a lot more so if you down class the GPU from what we used here do calculate that in to make sure that you're still staying above board on the frame rate so keep gpo choice in mind when looking at these charts the FX 95 90 technically plays at 1440 ultra but we faced severe framedrops and stuttering with the cpu and that's a trait characteristic of the 95 90s high TDP we found this to be true in other games as well so this is not a unique fallout 4 issue but the frame drops are severe enough that we probably dropped the settings down if I were actually to play this game with a 95 90 so that the stuttering and the frame drops are less severe and then the i3 falls far from the i7 starting point drop in 44 percent against the i7 and 29 percent against I 5 quite a difference in both regards at 1440 we see nearly a 30 percent performance advantage awarded to the i5 CPUs over the i3 CPUs and the 59 30 K exhibits stronger a low frame times then it's a non extreme cousins so if you look at the 59 30 K and some of these charts it will be outperformed by the 4790k which again not a fallout unique trait because it's happened in other games certainly but the difference here is really made in the low frame times the one seven point one percent frame times as we move into 1080p we keep the same ultra settings but drop resolution quite a bit so the pixel count is way lower and we see a higher FPS output obviously but there's still a pretty big performance curve so Delta between all these CPUs is still large and there's not great scaling for Fallout 4 across our CPU lineup if you look at the i7 4790k and the i5 4690k same generation both Devil's Canyon both refreshed as well there's a framerate drop of 17% from the i7 to the I 5 again a pretty big drop and the performance advantage of the 4790k over the 59 30 K is again reflected in a few games so this isn't abnormal to see the 4790 trading blows at the 59 thirty and the 59 30 K can be beaten out by the 4790k depending upon thread utilization and game optimization for each game tested and the same goes for the 6600 K against the 4690k where you sometimes see a maybe 1 FPS drop in performance with a 6600 because of a latency increase in the skylake memory subsystem or some other sort of transactional bus latency and this is reflected in our 6700 K benchmarks as well the i3 at 1080 ultra is presented with a massive bottleneck of about 54 percent against the i7 and when we look at the i-5 pairing the bottleneck is still about 37% so that's a big difference between an i3 on i-5 and the big hits continue and remain the case with the 95 90 am these high-end FX CPU with low frame times in these 16 40.1% lows and these are noticeable enough to impact play so that's again some sort of frame drop stuttering issue and then finally we look at some of the medium benchmarks just to get a better feel for things and eliminate more of the GPU bottleneck and some of the cpus here are equalizing due to the load on the GPU and CPU sort of mixing load mixing on the game side but the performance gap still exists the i3 to i-5 to i7 Delta is in order 29% from the i3 ti5 24.6% from the i-5 to the i7 so still a big difference and md's 95 90 is its best performer of course but even the 220 watt TDP $200 CP losses to Intel's 4690k by 20% in the frame rate Delta the 59 30k again allows for higher 0.1% low frame rates fallout 4 is Omni pretty aged and somewhat decrepit creation engine and that engine definitely is showing its age with regard to optimization on the GPU and the CPU sides so this Delta is from our testing pretty tied to frequency Fallout 4 is a very frequency hungry game obviously you look at AMD and that's there's some architecture that matters too because AMD does have a higher Raw frequency but the architecture is so different it's not linearly comparable to Intel's architecture so keep that in mind but raw frequency is what matters after architecture of course and the game does utilize threads a bit that utilizes hyper threading even it's just poorly optimized so we see some odd performance and some spurious positioning of the i3 and the i-5 and things like that so then the important part the i3 you can get by on some settings depending on what you're running and obviously what your GPU pairing is but it will bottleneck mid-range and high end GPUs so you don't don't want to buy a high end or mid-range GPU put it with a an i3 CPU and just choke your framerate heavily because of that the i-5 has about a 30% Delta against the i7 in some cases 17% and others so pretty big difference actually in this game and that was not something that I expected to find looking at an these high-end CPUs the 95 90 in this case the low frame rates are pretty poor and that's just really an issue with the CPU itself so you encounter that at some setting levels but not all of them and it can be worked with it's just it's not great and it's the smoothness of game plays pretty poor at times at 1440 and 1080 maxed so that is all for our CPU benchmark on Fallout 4 check out the GPU benchmarks the volumetric lighting benchmark the texture quality comparison all that stuff and of course hit the patreon link in the post roll video down here if you want to help us out and creating more content like this thanks for watching I'll see you all next time