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so it is near the end of the year meaning that we have the next installment in the Battlefield franchise namely battlefield 1 which is actually the fifth get 812 240 third I don't know anyways wacky naming convention aside battlefield 1 is a hyped enough game that it might actually get you thinking about upgrading your current system it's absolutely beautiful so what hardware combo should you be looking at let's find out in our battlefield 1 video card showdown featuring CPU cores and memory and like some other stuff Tunnel Bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet to Tritonal bear for free check out the link in the video description so battlefield one like I said it's an undoubtedly beautiful game but what do you need hardware wise to run it well enough to make you feel like you're really in the thick of it mustard gas and all we not only answer this question by looking at how it performed on current GPUs like we normally do from AMD and NVIDIA but also like I said we tried different CPU core configurations and RAM setups as well and these benchmarks are what we'll be looking at first for the CPU tests we paired Intel skylake CPUs with the new Pascal based Titan X or Titan XP from Nvidia as well as 32 gigs of fast ddr4 Ram to ensure we wouldn't have any other bottlenecks at 4k and the ultra preset pretty much every CPU from a 10 core with hyper threading down to a fork or without hyper threading performed more or less the same with the same average frame rate hovering around 80 glorious frames per second it's only when we drop down to a dual-core with hyper-threading something like a core i3 that we start to see a noticeable drop-off and a dual core without hyper threading cut our frames by over 50% so the bottom line here is that any relatively decent and recent Core i5 with 4 physical cores should be just fine we also took a look at the effects of different amounts of system Ram EA officially requires 8 gigabytes and recommends 16 but in our testing with a Titan X and stuff to remove bottlenecks the game didn't seem to care whatsoever even when we ran just four gigs of ram so yeah don't sweat it however if you don't have a ton of memory you may want to be careful about how many applications and browser tabs you have going on in the background and on the subject of memory should be pretty textures in battlefield 1 compel you to go for a card with more than the standard ration of 4 gigabytes to find out we took 2 R X 480 s1 with 4 gigabytes of vram and one with 8 again even on 4k ultra there was any real difference between them even when we disabled the in-game vram limiter so we can't imagine that 12 gigs of VRAM would be beneficial unless you're running multiple high-resolution screens or ei poles modding support out of their butts we tested current GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA but we also tested the older GTX 660 that's the minimum recommended card from EA so we'll see how well that works overall the good news is that while battlefield 1 is a great-looking title you don't need the best hardware on the market to run it out of all the cards that we tested the only one that wasn't really capable of running battlefield 1 at 4k was the $115 Radeon rx 460 everything else at least broke the 30fps threshold though you'll want a GTX 1080 or a Titan X if you want 4k at 60fps however crazy that is if you're more interested in hitting the 1440p sweet spot your most cost-effective option here is the $200 RX 470 which hit 60fps on Ultra settings and none of our cards really broke a sweat at 1080p except the affer mentioned rx 460 which still managed a solid 45 frames per second at Ultra if you want to break 60fps you have to turn the settings down to about medium which still isn't that bad though we did get strange artifacting at medium and low settings on multiple resolution on multiple cards both from AMD and NVIDIA so only really use those settings if you really need to because I don't know what the heck's going on there speaking of 1080p there's good news as long as you're not expecting to play the game at anything higher than 1080p the 660 which was a very popular card for years is capable of running it as EA claims which is good at Ultra settings we've got 33 FPS though with some noticeable slowdowns when lots of explosion and whatnot were happening on the screen button get down too high got us up to 40 fps and made the experience a whole lot better especially during intense cutscenes so that's where we'd probably recommend it if you're still using a gtx 660 especially as that way you'll avoid the weird artifacting we got at those lower presets anyways moving on if you've been waiting for a breakthrough dx12 game that really shows off the performance benefits of the new API you'll have to keep waiting our AMD cards performed virtually identical the x12 in dx11 while our Nvidia cards actually got noticeably worse the silver lining here is that if you're not rocking DirectX 12 compatible hardware you're not missing anything so there you go overall I think EA has done a pretty good job with battlefield 1 all dx12 things considered though I wish I could say the same about their origin DRM which locked us out countless amounts of times from four different accounts including one directly from EA with an EA comm email address what the hell this took us multiple days to benchmark compared to normally where it would just take one little section of time I also spent multiple sessions of time working with EA support hence the EA account that we had to test it with and our keys came from EA so that we could do this benchmark I'm like making these videos for you guys I like the idea of knowing what hardware I will need for my games and especially in one of these situations where it's coded apparently pretty damn well as it feels like at least for DirectX 12 where you have a beautiful game and you don't need that much hardware for it it would be nice knowing beforehand that you don't need to upgrade your graphic setup or whatever else but then this happens and it's just like anyways similar to what happened with Star Wars Battlefront the frostbite 3 engine delivers impressive immersive visuals without really pushing your hardware as I just mentioned all you really need is any modern mid-range graphics card and a CPU that is has a few cores and you'll be fine battlefield will play the way it was meant to be no SLI overclocking or bayonets required just hopefully you're even allowed to play so we'll see I'm going to go be salty somewhere else then we'll just do the ad spot move on crunchyroll is a site created by anime fans for anime fans that offers the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like reezy row or orange and they have a large collection of the most popular anime series like Naruto and Ace Attorney all of the content on their site is professionally subtitled so head over to crunchyroll.com 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