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The developers know best when it comes to getting the best bang for their buck from a resource-constrained piece of hardware and that experience should translate well across to PC tech too. We start our PC analyses by comparing the effects of each PC quality preset to the console equivalent.
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Starting from scratch: console-level settingsĬonsoles are not so different from PCs these days - in fact, the core processor in Xbox One and PS4 is based on PC technology. This is the area of most interest as a stress test for your processor. But as we take a trip through Novigrad City, it's an entirely different story. You'll see that in the engine-driven cut-scenes, it doesn't really matter which CPU you use - performance is extremely close. To illustrate, here's our first benchmark sequence, featuring six CPUs paired with the Titan X to remove graphics as a bottleneck as much as possible. The six core FX 6300 outperforms the i3 here, while the FX 8350 holds its own against the more expensive Core i5 4690K. This is fundamentally good news for AMD - while the Core i3 and i5 we tested tend to outperform the FX 6300 and FX 8350, AMD is much more competitive in CPU-intensive areas. Not so with The Witcher 3: whether we're running on Intel or AMD CPUs, we're seeing something very close to level utilisation across all cores. Usually we see one or two main threads overseeing most of the processing, hiving off tasks to other threads, which have much lower utilisation. What is worth pointing out is that CD Projekt Red's CPU usage is quite remarkable. It's more than likely that the graphics hardware will be the limiting factor here, but reducing the amount of background characters should also reduce the CPU load if you notice uncharacteristic stutter. We've seen an Intel Core i7 4790K overclocked to 4.6GHz hit 80 per cent utilisation across all threads - but we did need to use Nvidia's Titan X graphics card to remove the GPU bottleneck. During engine-driven cut-scenes and open world gameplay, it is relatively light on resources, but once you enter towns and cities, the additional streaming, animation and AI can push CPU utilisation to its limit - depending on your GPU. The Witcher 3 is game of two halves when it comes to CPU utilisation. What are the best CPUs for running The Witcher 3? The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Xbox One vs Core i3/GTX 750 Ti.That said, the game's background streaming tech is very efficient on resources: it is relatively frugal with VRAM - at 1080p, even with everything maxed, a 2GB graphics card is enough to get the job done. The Witcher 3 is relatively light on CPU for most of its duration, but scales immensely according to the GPU power you have available.
This will get you to 1080p60 with some visual enhancements over console, or alternatively, to really scale up the bling but keep your frame-rate above 30fps. However, our recommended spec would be a Core i7 4790K with a GTX 970. Our minimum spec is a Core i3 4130/FX 6300 with GTX 750 Ti - much, much lower, but you get a PS4-level experience using the settings in this guide. The official Witcher 3 system requirements are pretty steep: the minimum is a Core i5 2500K, 6GB of RAM and a GTX 660 or Radeon HD 7870, while the recommended spec sees a jump to an i7 3770, GTX 770 or Radeon R9 290 and 8GB of RAM. Effectively doubling console performance without trading on the visual quality is something of a challenge and while it can be done, a completely locked 60fps may prove too much for the most popular, mainstream £150 graphics cards. Typically, when gameplay matches your display's resolution and refresh, you get the most visually pleasing experience.
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1920x1080 is by far the most popular PC gaming monitor resolution, and the vast majority of those displays update at 60Hz.
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On top of that, we wondered what it would take to run the game at 1080p resolution with a firm 60fps. In producing our recent Face-Off, we saw that a relatively modest budget PC could match and in some cases exceed both PS4 and Xbox One performance at the same visual quality, but we wanted to go further - pushing those quality presets across a range of PC hardware. A massive critical and sales success, The Witcher 3 is a phenomenal piece of engineering - a technological accomplishment clearly built with the limitations of current-gen console in mind, but scaling beautifully on all manner of PC hardware.