{"id":105851,"date":"2016-09-30T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=105851"},"modified":"2016-09-30T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T08:58:46","slug":"intel-skylake-core-i3-processors-are-powerful-enough-for-high-end-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/105851-intel-skylake-core-i3-processors-are-powerful-enough-for-high-end-gaming","title":{"rendered":"Intel Skylake Core i3 processors are powerful enough for high-end gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many gamers opt for more expensive quad-core processors when building a gaming rig, whether it’s out of habit or because they require the performance for multitasking and rendering.<\/p>\n

However, when it comes to pure gaming rigs, Intel’s latest generation of consumer dual-core CPUs offer good performance at a much lower price.<\/p>\n

These processors may very well be a better choice than more expensive Core i5 or Core i7\u00a0CPUs if you are building a rig purely for gaming.<\/p>\n

In order to determine whether Intel’s Core i3 Skylake CPUs are worth buying, we take a look at their gaming performance.<\/p>\n

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Benchmarks<\/h3>\n

Below are a series of benchmarks conducted by AnandTech<\/a><\/strong>, detailing the gaming performance difference between Intel Skylake Core i3 and other processors:<\/p>\n

\"alien-isolation\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"grid-autosport\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"gta-v\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"shadow-of-mordor\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"total-war-atilla\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Verdict<\/h3>\n

While they may not provide enough power for strenous multitasking or Virtual Reality, Intel’s Core i3 Skylake processors are perfectly fine for gaming at Full HD.<\/p>\n

The above benchmarks show a\u00a0negligible loss in average FPS when using a Core i3 processor, and gamers would see better performance by improving their GPU over their processor.<\/p>\n

That being said, buying a quad-core processor does have its advantages, as these CPUs will begin to see better performance in DirectX 12 and Vulkan while delivering generally better performance in multiple strenous tasks.<\/p>\n

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More gaming news<\/h3>\n

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Is one of the Xbox One\u2019s best exclusives coming to the PC?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You don’t need an advanced quad-core processor for modern gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":96881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[22269,22273,22271,14210,4078,15855,1727,21469,13978,16909,11568],"class_list":["post-105851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-22269","tag-22273","tag-22271","tag-benchmarks","tag-core","tag-i3","tag-intel","tag-modern","tag-performance","tag-processor","tag-skylake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}