Performance is almost identical at 4K regardless of the core count. This is just a look at guideline performance then, and how well equipped Total War: Three Kingdoms is in terms of scaling performance to high-thread counts, as well as the performance hit you can expect to see on low core count processors.Īs you can see, at 4K the RTX 2060 is clearly the bottleneck in this scenario. Core counts and clock speeds don't necessarily translate to similar performance between different architectures and across different brands. Total War: Three Kingdoms CPU 2-Core, 3-Core, 4-Core, 5-Core & 6-Core Benchmarksįirst things first, there are obviously a ton of variables in these results. Each benchmark test was run on the Low graphics preset in order to best stress test the processor. We used the official TW:3K benchmark tool for these tests, with an additional CPU core (two threads) disabled for each Three Kingdoms benchmark. The processor we're using is the 6-core/12-thread Intel Core i7-5820K, running at an overclocked speed of 4.4 GHz (versus 3.3 GHz at stock speeds). Total War: Three Kingdoms benchmarks and frames per second analysis performed on GeForce RTX 2060 6GB | Intel i7-5820K 4.4GHz | 16GB DDR4įollowing our GPU benchmarks yesterday, today we're looking at the impact CPU core count has on Total War: 3K's performance. Your processor is tasked with handling large troop numbers, strategic battles, and AI turns.īut what sort of CPU do you actually need to run Total War: Three Kingdoms? In our new benchmark tests, we've taken a look at the performance impact of core count and how well TW3K scales to multiple cores. Three Kingdoms: Total War can be a very demanding game though, especially when it comes to the CPU.
It's well deserved, as you can find out in our TW: Three Kingdoms review. Creative Assembly has said it's already smashed through 1 million sales on Steam.
In week or so since it came out, Total War: Three Kingdoms has enjoyed the best launch yet for a Total War game.