This time we’re looking at CPU performance across 44 different
processors at 1080p using three different quality settings this gives us
a comprehensive look at how Starfield performs while CPU limited across a wide variety of Hardware so you’ll know what to expect and how to plan for an upgrade.
It’s fair to say that Starfield is a highly demanding game on both GPU and
CPU Hardware. We’ve found many areas in the game so far that are either brutal on GPUs, brutal on CPUs, or brutal on both gpus and CPUs at the same time. If you want the Ultimate Experience in the game, you’ll need some pretty powerful hardware and we’ve already seen how only the very top-end GPUs are capable of above 60 FPS using high quality settings
at decent resolutions. Similar can be said about CPU performance if you have older or mid-range CPU Hardware. It’s likely that in CPU demanding areas you won’t achieve amazing performance.
Are the results available in a table somewhere so I don’t need to watch a damn video?
Sadly, I haven’t seen a written benchmark with tables or pics.
the tl;dr is that newer Intel CPUs have better performance, but even CPUs from just a few years ago struggle to hit 60fps in busy areas (though the 7700k from 7 years ago does surprisingly well, but doesn’t hit 60fps)
They claim that what seems to really matter are (in order):
Core count doesn’t seem to make much difference. They also didn’t find a huge ddr4/ddr5 difference on intel processors.