Guild Wars 2 CPU Benchmarks and Performance

We often receive questions around whether or not someone’s computer can run GW2 or general Guild Wars 2 systems requirements inquiries, so we thought you might find this little series of benchmarks helpful. On the other hand, you may not be nearly as geeky about cpu hardware as we are. Luckily, the team at Tom’s Hardware decided to see how much of a frame rate difference the CPU makes by putting several of today’s popular processors to the test.

The resulting benchmarks from Tom’s Hardware show just how much CPU clock frequency and number of cores effect the performance of Guild Wars 2, and may be worth a read if you’re still looking to build or upgrade your system. You may find that the following discoveries prove to be the most interesting…

Four physical cores appear ideal, based on our results from the Sandy Bridge design. Sandy Bridge-E doesn’t seem to introduce any benefit at all. Intel’s dual-core, Hyper-Threaded Core i3 and dual-core Pentium are notably slower, though they still embarrass the eight-core AMD FX at 3 GHz.

The six- and eight-core FX processors perform fairly similarly, while the quad-core FX-4000-series is quite a bit slower. Remember, though, that the eight-core chip actually consists of four Bulldozer modules. The six- and four-core parts feature three and two modules, respectively. Each module involves notable resource-sharing, which likely affects performance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268-7.html

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