Can you get decent FPS with an Intel Pentium G3258?

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Hello Everyone,

I am wondering if you can get decent FPS with a G3258 and an MSI R7 265. My friend has a G3258 and a ASUS Strix GTX 750 Ti and I watched him play BF4 on max settings (with MSAA turned off) and the FPS counter would occasionally drop to a minimum of 37 (never below that) and 83 being the highest all on the G3258 at stock clock speed which is 3.2GHz. He said I could get even better frames with an R7 265. How many more frames could I get with the Intel G3258 at stock speed with an MSI R7 265 OC (single fan GPU)?

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There will be very little difference between your systems. A similar GTX750Ti and R7-265 are only about 8% apart in performance. Use the HD7850 which is the same as a GTX750Ti.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/R7_265_Dual-X/24.html

If you get any CPU bottlenecking at all this difference shrinks even more.

Also, with an Asus STRIX he can overclock more than most cards including an R7-265 so he could probably shrink the performance difference down to almost nothing.
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I doubt you'd do much better due to a CPU bottleneck:

The G3258 for most games is not the bottleneck point. It is the graphics card.

For games like BF4 and Metro 2033/LL that can use more threads it's likely that the performance using the CPU would be lower than using an i5-4690K for example.

*So my answer is that you should get better performance in games that aren't bottlenecked by your CPU. Tombraider yes, but I'm not sure you'd do a lot better in BF4 which gets very CPU dependent.
 
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Update:
There will be very little difference between your systems. A similar GTX750Ti and R7-265 are only about 8% apart in performance. Use the HD7850 which is the same as a GTX750Ti.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/R7_265_Dual-X/24.html

If you get any CPU bottlenecking at all this difference shrinks even more.

Also, with an Asus STRIX he can overclock more than most cards including an R7-265 so he could probably shrink the performance difference down to almost nothing.
 
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+1 Although you can get a 265 for less than the STRIX, so as far as value for money goes the 265 is better. You can even get a 270 for less than a STRIX and a 270x for a few dollars more.
 
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Yes in that BF4 will perform better with an FX-6300 likely and even better with a good i5/i7.

However, it also comes down to BUDGET.

If you gave me a BUDGET and said build a system optimized for BF4 then that would be something I could do. If it was very low then yes I'd recommend the FX-6300 for BF4 but not for games like SKYRIM for which the G3258 would beat the FX-6300.
 
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How many FPS do you think I'd get with BF4 if I played with a G3258? I also will be playing Medal of Honor 2010 and Warfighter, as well as Skyrim, Oblivion, AC2, 3, 4, and a few online games such as Warface, Insurgency, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
 
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