That's the average frame rate, not the minimum, so FC5 may not run very well even on the Core i9-11600K.

Intel's latest Xe graphics shine in comparison to the hardware the company previously shipped, but FC5 still only hits 31fps. iGPUs like the Ryzen 5 3400G's RX Vega 11 aren't nearly as fast in 720p (the 5700G outperforms the 3400G by 57 percent in Far Cry 5), but its 1080p frame rate is more comparable, at 30fps versus 33fps. In Far Cry 5, moving from 720p to 1080p cuts AMD's Ryzen 5000 performance nearly in half. Let's look at PCMag's AAA gaming data from Far Cry 5 and Rise of the Tomb Raider:įirst, look at the way moving to 1080p hits iGPU performance. AMD's integrated GPUs are typically faster than Intel's because AMD 'spends' more of its die size on the technology. All of the AMD APUs being compared here use AMD's older GCN architecture, codenamed Vega.

The Core i5-11600K uses a GPU based on Intel's newer Xe graphics technology, but the older Intel CPUs use an iGPU design dating back to 2015. After Skylake, Intel's onboard GPU technology stagnated for several years. AMD and Intel take different approaches to onboard graphics. Our colleagues at PCMag have rounded up (Opens in a new window) a range of APUs and CPUs from AMD and Intel, respectively, and put them through their various paces.

If you're a gamer whose GPU died in the past year, playing on an AMD APU or Intel iGPU might represent a better value than not being able to game at all. As a result, chips like AMD's 5700G are potentially more valuable to would-be gamers than they would otherwise be. The pandemic-driven GPU shortages may have eased with the collapse of the cryptocurrency market, but the problem hasn't been completely resolved.

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