Final Fantasy XV PC graphics performance benchmark review - CPU Scaling

CPU Scaling

If you are wondering, what would be the effect of a four-core versus an eight-core processor for this the game? Well, let's test just that a couple of procs! I have a quick chart I would like to show you, the results below are based on default clock frequencies as well as a couple of tweaked processors. We apply the very same image quality settings as used throughout this article, highest.

First off, processor core scaling. Above you can see our default graphics card test system. This is the Core i7 5960X with eight cores and 16 threads. We always have an all core clock at 4200 MHz on this processor, as it is right now. We gradually disable cores and SMT (Hyper-Threading) to check what kind of an effect that has on the framerate, for this game the results are incredibly close meaning most processors will run the game really well. 

We always get asked, what happened if you overclock Ryzen. So we did that, a 1700X is tweaked to 4 GHz on all cores. The effect is noticeable and measurable. 

Above you can see a default clocked AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, then the same proc @ 4 GHz being compared to our test rig with the Core i7 5960X @ 4.2 GHz. As mentioned, there's a hard cap at 120 FPS we cannot get rid of. But other then that, AMD Ryzen performs really well.