Far Cry 6 GPU performance not bad at all but is severely bottlenecked by CPU

[Jay-G25]

Can you not post fake benchmarks thanks!

What you on about fake ? its not my video just one i got off you tube and i don't see anything fake about it and falls in line with many other benchmarks online of the various cpus in gaming scenarios and if anything paints the AMD cpu in good light for 1080P, my point was to illustrate that the 9900K is very much still a very good CPU especially if playing at 4k and will not be bottle necked , its perfectly fine at 1440p as well tbh and if i had one i would be waiting a while to upgrade ...

another cpu benchmark or would you say this is fake as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAyX--7rJiE&ab_channel=ANTIAXIDANT

 

[Grim5]

What you on about fake ? its not my video just one i got off you tube and i don't see anything fake about it and falls in line with many other benchmarks online of the various cpus in gaming scenarios and if anything paints the AMD cpu in good light for 1080P, my point was to illustrate that the 9900K is very much still a very good CPU especially if playing at 4k and will not be bottle necked , its perfectly fine at 1440p as well tbh and if i had one i would be waiting a while to upgrade ...

another cpu benchmark or would you say this is fake as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAyX--7rJiE&ab_channel=ANTIAXIDANT

Yea that is fake too.

Understand what I'm saying. I'm not disputing the results, I'm not disputing that the 9900k is a good gaming CPU. I just asked if people didn't post benchmarks from known fake YouTube accounts.

I could also very quickly produce a video with some excel bar charts showing results of the 12900k, 13900k and even the 6950x - if it's on YouTube it must be true. I don't even need to show my face, provide my name, show my pc or even show any of the CPUs I claim to own, I don't even need to show my methodology or test equipment, when it's on YouTube anyone will believe it!

 

[LtMatt]

The 5950X is the best gaming CPU, of that there is no doubt and there is no other CPU I'd want for the best overall gaming performance.

I see so many people with low GPU utilisation in various games and they're all using Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs for the most part.

Grim has a point, there is no details of system specs, memory configurations etc in those videos.

Not definitely saying they are true or false as I don't really know, but there is no information at all on system configs.

Far Cry 6 seems to run okay on a 6700 XT at 1440P maximum settings, just recorded some gameplay and separately the benchmark sequence.

I played for 11 minutes and did not see any texture issues that I could notice. Perhaps issues would pop up If i continued for longer, not sure.

Video memory usage peaked at 10.1GB, but seemed to be below 10GB for most of the video.

Didn't see it climb above 10gb in the benchmark sequence.

Will add the other footage once its uploaded. @Shaz12

Full video, memory usage was lower than I was expecting, peaked at 10.1GB.

 

[Shaz12]

I know the CPU and RAM are due for an upgrade as even in Cyberpunk, some areas of the city have my GPU usage down to 85% at 4K although its still pegged at 99% most of the time. Still waiting for Alder Lake to release before I make the jump.

My Far Cry 6 results seem to be as expected though as here’s another video of someone using a 3080 Ti and a 10900k and GPU usage is always in the eighties, maybe slightly better than mine. This is the fastest CPU Intel has as the moment so seems only the 5950X is capable of fully saturating my GPU at the moment.

 

[LtMatt]

I know the CPU and RAM are due for an upgrade as even in Cyberpunk, some areas of the city have my GPU usage down to 85% at 4K although its still pegged at 99% most of the time. Still waiting for Alder Lake to release before I make the jump.

My Far Cry 6 results seem to be as expected though as here’s another video of someone using a 3080 Ti and a 10900k and GPU usage is always in the eighties, maybe slightly better than mine. This is the fastest CPU Intel has as the moment so seems only the 5950X is capable of fully saturating my GPU at the moment.

Seems to be running well here on a 3080 TI, however he's using a 5800X.

Looks like it's Intel CPUs choking the GPU.

 

[Shaz12]

Seems to be running well here on a 3080 TI, however he's using a 5800X.

Looks like it's Intel CPUs choking the GPU.

The game doesn’t seem to be optimised for Intel. If you check both the videos on Intel, there are 2 stutters at exactly the same time in both on the frame time graph, not there on the AMD 5800X. An Nvidia+Intel combination in this game isn’t performing as it should.

 

[gpuerrilla]

I see so many people with low GPU utilisation in various games and they're all using Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs for the most part.

This is the fault of the sheeple affect. Years upon years of mindshare ingrained have people assuming if they felt like building a machine for themselves or a family member would walk into a component store and beeline to the Intel shelf for a cpu and nvidia shelf for the gpu.

Yes it will probably be a good machine as it falls into their 'safe' brand, but the spoken combo seems to also be the go to build of many err lets call them outlets of information which I noticed is never really justified at the beginning of any content.

 

[Poneros]

Finally got it, played for a few hours - it's magnificent! Looks gorgeous, runs well (minus world traversal stutters) and is a lot of fun. Actually surprised at how well written it is thus far, it is uncharacteristically low on the UbiCringe. Overall the graphical presentation is up there with the best, and has few real negatives attached to its system unlike more "ambitious" titles (f.ex. you can see with Cyberpunk how much trouble it has with updating world lighting, streaming everything etc. so yes it pushes more advanced RT but at the same time that backfires very often as well; here you get a bit less ambition but with almost no inconsistencies - that's worth a lot). Navigating through the menus & world is very snappy, a real pleasure in facct, and if they manage to alleviate some of the stutter issues then this will be a real masterpiece for the franchise. So far it's edging close to a 9 for me, I just can't find fault with it outside of some "gamey" moments (lots of NPC spawn & rush in some situations etc).

 

[gpuerrilla]

If it has Pony's seal of approval it must be good!

I sometimes stop mid mission and enjoy the carnage of the regular public crashing vehicles or getting run over on their horses!

 

[gpuerrilla]

@LtMatt some morning reddit farcry viewing.

 

[LtMatt]

@LtMatt some morning reddit farcry viewing.

Lol, morning to you too.
Far Cry (reddit.com)

 

[Jay-G25]

Yea that is fake too.

Understand what I'm saying. I'm not disputing the results, I'm not disputing that the 9900k is a good gaming CPU. I just asked if people didn't post benchmarks from known fake YouTube accounts.

I could also very quickly produce a video with some excel bar charts showing results of the 12900k, 13900k and even the 6950x - if it's on YouTube it must be true. I don't even need to show my face, provide my name, show my pc or even show any of the CPUs I claim to own, I don't even need to show my methodology or test equipment, when it's on YouTube anyone will believe it!

Well if you think it's fake that's your opinion not a fact , I never said it must be true because its on YouTube just that it falls in line with the many many other results posted online between them all and they show that at 4k there is basically no difference between any of these cpu plain and simple and expecting some sort of magical uplift at 4k by upgrading to either an AMD or Alderlake will be pretty pointless and a waste of money in my opinion.

 

[gpuerrilla]

I got that take too @Jay-G25 when HU did their coverage the summary was at 4k the GPU will generally be the bottleneck and a 3600 would cover you for the main part of most games which holds true for me so far @4k60.

 

[Jay85]

Had another go last night for a few hours and im seeing slightly higher gpu usage 91-92% but cpu usage is still way way under, around 45-50%.

I'm also noticing some weird pixelation when the camera is not focused on an area i.e. your gun when not aiming down sight, the back of the gun can look really poorly textured to the point where it almost looks pixelated.

The weird thing is, this pixelation disappears after a few minutes in game.


Still getting the odd stutter here and there especially when there's a lot going on screen.

I'll check vram usage tonight as i forgot to look.

9900k @5.0 all core
3090
16gb 3200 cl16
game is running off a NVME P2 drive.

I'm using the HD texture pack
Raytracing relfections is on
Raytracing shadows is off
FSR is on Ultra Quality - I find quality or balanced smears the picture when i moved the camera around.
All settings on high with a few on ultra - Texture Filtering, Geometry/Vegetation, water, Terrain.


Anyone else noticed that FSR resets each time you close the game? I have to manually turn it on again at the start of each game, really annoying...

 

[Jay-G25]

I got that take too @Jay-G25 when HU did their coverage the summary was at 4k the GPU will generally be the bottleneck and a 3600 would cover you for the main part of most games which holds true for me so far @4k60.

Exactly this mate , will he no issue with a R5 3600 at 4k ... I've even seen it putting out over 150fps+ at 4k in certain games if YT benchmarks are to be believed only thing i would be looking at changing is the GPU until it becomes pretty obvious the CPU is starting to struggle at 4K but with the CPU we have out now that wont be happing for a while yet at 4K . If we were talking about 1080P then that's a whole different ball game but at 4K we are all fine for now for the most part

 

[gpuerrilla]

I have tinkered a bit last night and some this morning. I have turned FSR off as it gives me too much FPS and I can tell the difference in quality (is not quite so good as native 4k). My monitor isnt uber so its locked at its spec between 30-74 which gives me great visual gameplay - even then the 3090 is coping being able to feed higher fps.

Going back to settings I had before to check this is overall better. Had a break as not sure if its intentional or just random but sometimes taking out a truck ends up in a war and too many people wade in lol.

Exactly this mate , will he no issue with a R5 3600 at 4k ... I've even seen it putting out over 150fps+ at 4k in certain games if YT benchmarks are to be believed only thing i would be looking at changing is the GPU until it becomes pretty obvious the CPU is starting to struggle at 4K but with the CPU we have out now that wont be happing for a while yet at 4K . If we were talking about 1080P then that's a whole different ball game but at 4K we are all fine for now for the most part

Oh and the only thing I would say is needing a 'better' cpu is if for example I wanted to stream while playing then the 3600 would not cut it. That or I need 120> fps which I dont but if I magically was given a top grade monitor that could do the hz/fps I would have to reconsider.

 

[Jay-G25]

The 5950X is the best gaming CPU, of that there is no doubt and there is no other CPU I'd want for the best overall gaming performance.

I see so many people with low GPU utilisation in various games and they're all using Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs for the most part.

Grim has a point, there is no details of system specs, memory configurations etc in those videos.

Not definitely saying they are true or false as I don't really know, but there is no information at all on system configs.

Full video, memory usage was lower than I was expecting, peaked at 10.1GB.

The 5950X is indeed a brilliant CPU but i fear i may lose some performance in certain benchmarks if i did the swap from my 10900K

In all seriousness though any of these high end CPU be it from AMD or Intel will serve you well for gaming needs and will offer pretty much no uplift at 4k even against the lower tier CPU, 1080P yep we will see a difference but with this level of hardware playing at 1080p is wrong unless you require silly high FPS ....

 

[gpuerrilla]

In all seriousness though any of these high end CPU be it from AMD or Intel will serve you well for gaming needs and will offer pretty much no uplift at 4k even against the lower tier CPU, 1080P yep we will see a difference but with this level of hardware playing at 1080p is wrong unless you require silly high FPS ....

I agree. The outlay is nonsense for the fractional % on offer. Those CPU's are strong enough and changing other game settings would be the sensible option. This is why I cant fathom why owning the best GPU's you can buy and playing at 1080p is even a consideration.

 

[Jay85]

I have tinkered a bit last night and some this morning. I have turned FSR off as it gives me too much FPS and I can tell the difference in quality (is not quite so good as native 4k). My monitor isnt uber so its locked at its spec between 30-74 which gives me great visual gameplay - even then the 3090 is coping being able to feed higher fps.

Going back to settings I had before to check this is overall better. Had a break as not sure if its intentional or just random but sometimes taking out a truck ends up in a war and too many people wade in lol.



Oh and the only thing I would say is needing a 'better' cpu is if for example I wanted to stream while playing then the 3600 would not cut it. That or I need 120> fps which I dont but if I magically was given a top grade monitor that could do the hz/fps I would have to reconsider.

Think its intentional lol, i had a few moments of this last night where taking out a truck spawned a Tank and a couple of guys on horse back to my location . Good for farming materials but gets pretty annoying if you just wanna blow it up and move on without further aggro!

 

[Shaz12]

Had another go last night for a few hours and im seeing slightly higher gpu usage 91-92% but cpu usage is still way way under, around 45-50%.

I'm also noticing some weird pixelation when the camera is not focused on an area i.e. your gun when not aiming down sight, the back of the gun can look really poorly textured to the point where it almost looks pixelated.

The weird thing is, this pixelation disappears after a few minutes in game.


Still getting the odd stutter here and there especially when there's a lot going on screen.

I'll check vram usage tonight as i forgot to look.

9900k @5.0 all core
3090
16gb 3200 cl16
game is running off a NVME P2 drive.

I'm using the HD texture pack
Raytracing relfections is on
Raytracing shadows is off
FSR is on Ultra Quality - I find quality or balanced smears the picture when i moved the camera around.
All settings on high with a few on ultra - Texture Filtering, Geometry/Vegetation, water, Terrain.


Anyone else noticed that FSR resets each time you close the game? I have to manually turn it on again at the start of each game, really annoying...

Did you run the benchmark with FSR UQ? I have noticed that when I turn in FSR UQ, there are 2 deep stutters in the benchmark but when I turn off FSR, those stutters disappear.