Baba Yetu VI Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 I have checked many reviews and comparisons on youtube lately, and cannot find any mentioning CPU-bound games. Is that most of the games in the last 2 to 3 years are designed to be GPU-bound only? Anybody can supply opinions and knowings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furyan Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 ARMA 3 (old, but still played by many) is CPU/RAM based. Prior to a recent upgrade (month ago) I was getting 29-45 (avg.) FPS in game, not uncommon. I was running i7-2600K/16GB RAM/GTX 1060 OC (6GB). I upgraded to a i9-9900k/16GB RAM (DDR4 3200)/same GPU and I was getting 70-130 (avg.) FPS. I added a new MSI 2070 Super and it made zero difference to my FPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegan Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 A few games seem to need faster hardware than most consumers are used to presenting I found a SSD was the best bang for the buck for gaming generally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furyan Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 A few games seem to need faster hardware than most consumers are used to presenting I found a SSD was the best bang for the buck for gaming generally Completely agree, NVMe all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francisbaud Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 If I recall correctly Camelot Unchained, an upcoming medieval MMO, will be CPU bound and will take great advantage of faster CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msm8378 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Command Modern Air/Naval Operations is a current game that relies more on CPU power than GPU... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee Corsair CJ Posted September 2, 2020 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 2, 2020 Bumping this thread to say Flight Simulator 2020. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamiller Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 I only know the old classics: Nox, Diablo, Divine Divinity and Sacred are some i can recall. Off the top of my head I'll also suggest dungeon crawl stone soup, gearhead, gearhead2, cataclysm dark days ahead, and the absolutely fantastic doomRL :sunglasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CpuWeight56 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 I think Flight Simulator is pretty CPU bound from what I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeDoyen Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 I think Flight Simulator is pretty CPU bound from what I recall. At home it barely taxes the CPU, maybe 30% wether it's a dense city or in the desert. The GPU on the other hand, it's taking a beating :) Some games display 100% CPU usage but upgrading or overclocking yield no real gain, like the last assassin's creed. I thought they were CPU bound, but going from an OCed 9700k to a 10900k with the same 2080 made me gain like 2 or 3 fps at best. So yea, GPU bound all across the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom899 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Being new around here what does "CPU bound" mean. I do know what CPU is :-) Relies heavily on the CPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeTi34 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Pretty much all strategic games that wrap around resource management are very CPU reliant, Civ games, Crusader Kings or Stellaris to name a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegan Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Shadow of the Tomb Raider does benefit from a multicore processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamingJules Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 I think I read somewhere that Cities: Skylines and Civilization are also CPU-bound games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senosse Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 I think I read somewhere that Cities: Skylines and Civilization are also CPU-bound games. The total war games are another good example, turn speed processing is tied directly to CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiningGirl92 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Aren't the both Gearhead games CPU-bound? At least that's what Im recalling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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