In most situations, four cores are plenty for games. There is an upwards trend, and six-core procs now become the new sweet spot, tests performed by ComputerBase show that Intel’s 6-core, 12-thread Core i7-8700K paired with an Asus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Strix OC, delivers the best performance in the game.
The new 6-core Coffee Lake 8700K is 19% faster than the quad-core i7-7700K in 1920 × 1080. Which can be said, is substantial.
At 1080p, their flagship Ryzen 7 1800X featuring 8 cores and 16 threads is slower than the 8700K, but can keep up with the Kaby Lake chips. Check the results. The also they did check graphics performance with a number of cards, see below.
Assassins Creed performance: Origins likes 8 or more Threaded CPUs
