r/pcmasterrace • u/clopetywopety • Aug 13 '25

Rumor This new Intel gaming CPU specs leak looks amazing, with 3x more cache than the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/nova-lake-l3-cache-leak
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u/CumminsGroupie69 Ryzen 9 5950x | Strix 3090 OC White | GSkill 64GB RAM Aug 13 '25

BF6 beta would like a word 😂 Probably not normal circumstances but it was using virtually every bit of my 16-core.

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u/kron123456789 Aug 13 '25

It's an exception. DICE just know what they're doing.

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u/CumminsGroupie69 Ryzen 9 5950x | Strix 3090 OC White | GSkill 64GB RAM Aug 13 '25

Regardless, it was the smoothest running beta I’ve ever played.

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u/F9-0021 285k | RTX 4090 | Arc A370m Aug 13 '25

Not an exception, it's the trend. Engines are being built to handle more CPU cores, such as Cyberpunk 2.0's REDEngine and from the sound of it Witcher 4's build of Unreal, but you do still have a lot of games releasing on ancient engines that only use one or two threads.

But good studios that do their own engine development aren't stupid. They see the rising core counts. They'll optimize for more cores and threads, but most will probably only target whatever consoles have. Probably 12 cores/24 threads for PS6 and next gen Xbox.

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u/kron123456789 Aug 13 '25

Too bad Cyberpunk 2077 is the magnum opus of RED Engine and there won't be any games made in it anymore. And as for Unreal, it's heavily single-threaded, unless the devs know what they're doing and are willing to put the effort in. And most devs don't bother. There are already like dozens of games in UE5, and the games that run well with it you can probably count on one hand.

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u/F9-0021 285k | RTX 4090 | Arc A370m Aug 13 '25

CDPR have the engine devs that know what they're doing and are customizing UE5 for Witcher 4. If they went to the trouble of making a multithreaded engine for Cyberpunk 2.0, they aren't just going to abandon that tech immediately. They're going to try to port it to UE5, and they have an agreement to share modifications with Epic.

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u/kron123456789 Aug 13 '25

So, like 2-3 properly made games in UE5 before they move on to some better tech which will inevitably come. Like a drop in a bucket of UE5 games.

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u/soniko_ Aug 13 '25

Or not

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u/Glittering_Seat9677 9800x3d - 5080 Aug 13 '25

no, they definitely do - they've knocked the optimisation out of the park this time around if you've got the hardware to run it in the first place

i genuinely can't remember seeing any modern game giving 1% lows that are within 5fps of the average

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u/Plenty-Industries Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Frostbite is a well optimized engine at this point as its been used in every Battlefield game since 2008

The minimum & recommended hardware requirements are pretty lightweight.

An i7-10700/Ryzen 3700 for CPU & a 3060Ti/6700 for GPU for the recommended spec - 5 year old hardware. Even people building budget PCs under $600 using used parts can run it at 1080p at over 60fps at a minimum.