Hello everyone,
As we all know BF3 has pretty much become the new gaming benchmark, but most hardware sites have been focusing on single player performance - which is like an entirely different standard from multiplayer.
I can say from experience that MP on large maps(CP 64 players) takes a massive hit on performance, my Phenom II @ 3.6ghz was seeing 90% usage and probably bottle-necked my 6970 to 80% usage. This was at 1280*1024 and I'd see minimums of 30fps which is ridiculous.
After a lengthy search I also found this swedish website that ran some tests on that very map, confirming my beliefs that BF3 becomes very CPU-intensive. People seem to be focusing so much on video cards that they're completely overlooking CPU's, which seem to be more important. Some of these SP benchmarks give you the impression that a dual-core CPU runs bf3 just as well as an 8-core!
So I'm wondering if anyone else has been able to find any information specifically regarding MP performance and if we could possible put together our own little database. Or Hard OCP could do the tests themselves
As we all know BF3 has pretty much become the new gaming benchmark, but most hardware sites have been focusing on single player performance - which is like an entirely different standard from multiplayer.
I can say from experience that MP on large maps(CP 64 players) takes a massive hit on performance, my Phenom II @ 3.6ghz was seeing 90% usage and probably bottle-necked my 6970 to 80% usage. This was at 1280*1024 and I'd see minimums of 30fps which is ridiculous.
After a lengthy search I also found this swedish website that ran some tests on that very map, confirming my beliefs that BF3 becomes very CPU-intensive. People seem to be focusing so much on video cards that they're completely overlooking CPU's, which seem to be more important. Some of these SP benchmarks give you the impression that a dual-core CPU runs bf3 just as well as an 8-core!
So I'm wondering if anyone else has been able to find any information specifically regarding MP performance and if we could possible put together our own little database. Or Hard OCP could do the tests themselves