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welcome back to harbor unboxed today we're looking at cpu performance in player unknowns battlegrounds now about 6 months ago we did put together a mini tests that compare GPU performance using the games of various visual quality presets and found that the best value combo for those targeting 60 FPS at Sony P was the rosin 514 hundred and GTX 1060 since in the game scene Calais updates a number of them have addressed the games proteome ization issues or at least they've claimed to that said in its current state the game still requires a lot of work things have been improved but I'd say overall only a little bit since we first tested it all those months ago roughly four months ago though it did receive a patch which improved CPU utilization claiming a damn can now utilize six or more cause over the past few months I've been stuck with the game a bit but I haven't done any in-depth testing where I compared a large number of CPUs it's mostly been head-to-head type stuff so I thought why not take all the eighth generation Intel Core Series CPUs all the rise and CPUs and a few seventh gen core CPUs and test them in pub G under the same conditions this is exactly what I've ended up doing and now we have results for sixteen different CPUs at 1080p using the very low medium and ultra quality presets with the GeForce GTX 1080i which has the 380 8.43 driver installed all unlocked Intel CPUs along with all the rise in CPUs have been tested using ddr4 3200 cell 14 memory meanwhile the locked Intel CPUs were a test with ddr4 2400 cell 14 memory so for example the core i3 8350 K was tested with 3200 memory but the core i3 8100 was tested using 2400 memory towards the end of the video I've also noted the CP utilization of all 16 CPUs for those of you interested and there are some interesting results to be seen there for testing I'll walk through one of the busy towns for 30 seconds as this is more than enough time to gather the data we need who actually reduced the past time from the normal 60 seconds just 30 seconds to try and minimize the frequency at which I was killed before completing the pass as this is a high loop area so higher risk but high reward and yet high risk for those benchmarking as you would expect the test starts at exactly the same point and ends at the same point every single time and I take an average of three runs so let's check out their results first up we have the very low quality results here the visual quality settings are set to their lowest value so this should remove the GeForce GTX 1080i as the performance limiting component that said we are clearly seeing a GPU bottleneck here with the majority of the seventh gen and 8th gen core processors the gtx 980ti looks to be good for only about a hundred and twenty FPS on average with dips to about a hundred fps previously when testing with the ultra quality preset I found the seventy-seven ok and r5 1600 for example delivered the same performance here we see though that the seventy-seven ok is 20% faster than the 1600 X as the Rison cpus appear to be struggling in comparison of course with well over 60 fps at all times the Rison cpus did still provide very planned performance but in a game that claims support for high coil count CPUs the results are disappointing on that note I will discuss CPU utilization shortly quite shockingly the horizon 7 1800 X was just 14 percent faster than the Rison 3 1200 for the average frame rate and just 6 percent faster than the 1300 X so this suggests that the game really isn't utilising higher core count CPUs very well at all and instead prefers core frequency / core count based on these results that appears as though a quad core really is enough and it doesn't even necessarily require HT or SMT support that said though for optimal performance a dual core with HT n able isn't enough and we see this with the Pentium G 4560 which really was considerably slower than any other CPU tested that said it was still able to provide playable performance and would be a great pairing for a low-end $100 u.s. graphics card increasing the visual quality settings with the medium quality preset reduces the GTX 1082 s performance by around 10 percent with the faster CPUs tested there is a little bit of reshuffling with the horizon cpus and now those with more cores are seen to be doing a little bit better at least when compared to what we saw previously the 18 Nexxus now 25% faster than the twelve hundred and sixteen percent faster than the thirteen hundred x so the medium quality settings do appear to place a bit more load on the CPU though I have to say this wasn't apparent when monitoring CPU utilization as the overall figures were much the same again we see that the Intel CPUs are able to find the limits of the GeForce GTX 1080i so it's likely the eight and twelve threader models could go faster again finally we have the ultra quality preset results and here we see very little change from the medium quality results for the most part just a few frames are dropped though it's the Intel quad cores that are the biggest losers here the one percent low result for the core i3 80 183 50k dropped by around fifteen percent whereas the Rison five 1500 X and rise in 313 hundreds for example were just eight percent slower has to be said that so far the results seem to be a bit all over the place and that's something we do often see with poorly optimized games this graph gives us a better look at what's going on so it doesn't really clear anything up looking at the core i7 a7 okay we see a 10% drop from the very low to medium quality presets and then a 3% drop from medium to ultra the core i5 7600 K on the other hand drops 10% from the very low to medium preset and then a further 12% from medium to ultra so that's interesting the ultra quality preset certainly hurts the quad-core more but then we have the horizon 3 1200 results which are more in line with what we saw from the 8700 cave so that's confusing to say the least then the 1600 X shows fairly consistent scaling across the three quality presets then we have the pentium g 45 60 and that's different again showing similar results with the very low and medium presets and then dropping quite a bit when using the ultra preset so overall we see at the core i5 7600 K and Rison 5 1600 the only CPUs to show consistent scaling okay so last that we have the CPU utilization results and they are very interesting firstly what you're looking at here is the average CPU utilization recorded from our 32nd past so it's not the peak but rather the average the G 45 60 for example did at times hit 100% but it also dropped down to around 80% and for the entire test we did see an average utilization figure of 91% what's interesting to note here though is how heavily underutilized the risin 5 and risin 7-series CPUs are the horizon 5 1600 X for example has 4 cores and 8 threads and it's clocked it up to 3.7 gigahertz depending on the workload yet the core i7 87 are okay which also packs six cords with 12 threads and a minimum operating frequency of 3.7 gigahertz actually saw a higher utilization quite a bit higher in fact AMD zone 6 core 12,000 five sixteen hundreds or an average utilization figure of just twenty eight percent which is considerably lower than the forty five percent figure seen when testing with the 87 or okay you would expect a lower clock CPU the same core in thread count to see higher utilization not drastically lower so there is clearly a serious optimization issue here for rise and CPUs six months on and player unknowns battlegrounds still requires serious optimization work shaadi rise and support aside even the core i7 eighty seven okay and gtx 1080i combo were very underwhelming pushing just a hundred and twenty three FPS on average tally pair using the minimum quality preset well for a lack of a better word and that's pretty pathetic helping to put that result into context the same combo pushes over two hundred and twenty fps and battlefield one using the medium quality preset we see 200 FPS in warhammer to 240 FPS in f1 2017 260 fps and Rainbow six siege 220 fps and Call of Duty World War two and while the list just goes on again with all those games we're nowhere near the minimum quality settings either all quoted frame rates are based on the medium quality preset in anticipation that some allow you that pub G is an open-world shooter and therefore hammers the CPU well as we saw when testing with the very low quality settings this simply isn't the case an Intel quad core or grader will hit a GPU bottleneck at just a hundred and twenty FPS while whole horizon CPUs were heavily underutilized and didn't have a chance to get anywhere near that figure one thing seems clear if you're a massive pub G fan and you're building a new computer solely play this title something like the core i3 81 or a 350 K for example will offer you the most bang for your buck I'd never normally recommend the 80 350 K but pub G makes that somewhat have a valid choice although I am yet to test any older CPUs based on the results that we have seen here I would quite confidently say that anything back to a core i5 2500 K will play the game just fine providing an overclock is applied and it's pretty shocking to find though on the GPU front at least with a high end GPU that there is very little difference between the very low and ultra quality settings in terms of FPS performance visually though there is a massive difference so again that's quite shocking anyway that's gonna do it for this one let me know what you think below as always I'm keen to hear your thoughts I'm your host Steve see you next time you