Benchmarks: Total War Warhammer, Overwatch

Total War: Warhammer is a CPU enervating game that can make good use of multiple threads. Right abroad, fifty-fifty with the GeForce GTX 1060 we tin can come across the G4560 getting left behind. The plucky little Pentium was still able to provide decent performance, though the Ryzen CPUs were noticeably better hither.

Despite that, increasing the rendering power with the GTX 1070 did trivial to ameliorate performance for the red team and nosotros meet the aforementioned minimum frame rates. The i5-7400 did run across a squeamish fifteen% boost though even it isn't getting the most out of the 1070. That beingness the example the motility to the faster GTX 1080 made little to no departure and we were now faced with an extreme CPU bottleneck for all five configurations.

Next up we have Overwatch, another game that can put many threads to work. Surprisingly all five CPU configurations were able to max out the GTX 1060, which obviously includes the dual-core HT enabled G4560. Moving to the GTX 1070 changed things quite a bit and now nosotros see the G4560 falling well behind equally it was only able to improve over its 1060 consequence past 10%.

Meanwhile, the Ryzen three 1200 enjoyed 27% more performance and 34% more for the R3 1300X, the latter of which was comparable to the i5-7400 here while the R5 1400 pushed a little further ahead.

Upgrading to the GTX 1080 does little to improve operation though we are seeing better gains hither than most of the games tested so far. The R5 1400 minimum frame rate was boosted by 12%, though only 9% for the R3 1300X. Still, the G4560 created an even more than extreme bottleneck and only increased performance by four%.