Lower gaming rig is faster than my better gaming rig.

Hisham Jalal · Jan 10, 2015

Recently I built a budget gaming pc for my brother. Intel Pentium G3240 + R7 250x 2GB with 4GB of RAM. While mine is FX 6300 + R7260x 1GB with 8GB RAM. What's strange is that his computer plays most games much better than mine. (Thief, Bioshock Infinite, B4 etc) Why is this? The only difference we have is that his monitor is a brand new LED monitor while mine is 6-7 years old LCD monitor. Is it the motherboard? Is it the cpu or gpu? I'm confused.

CTurbo · Jan 10, 2015

Hook your PC up to his monitor and see how it performs

Hisham Jalal · Jan 10, 2015

CTurbo :

Thanks for the reply. I will try and do that later as I am a little busy right now. I'll let you know what happen. Thank you

mackswelll · Jan 20, 2015

Plays better how? Is it smoother? better graphics settings? Better in what ways. Make sure both pc's are on the same EXACT settings when comparing.

HDMI703 · Jan 24, 2015

Hisham Jalal :

maybe his vvideo card is better or your computer windows is messed up

Hisham Jalal · Jan 29, 2015

mackswelll :

better as in smoother and higher fps. when I did the comparison, I can really feel the difference.

Hisham Jalal · Jan 29, 2015

HDMI703 :

his card is R7 250X 2GB while mine is R7 260X 1 GB as stated above. I dont know if the higher memory makes his card better than mine or anything.

Alectfenrir · Jan 29, 2015

You see, many games are CPU demanding. Lets take ArmA 3 for example (yes this also applies to MOST games) The game uses only 2 CPU cores due to poor optimisation is which abundant in many games. Intel's Performance-per-core is significantly more powerful than AMD's performance-per-core. Therefore the Intel CPU is "faster" than the AMD CPU.

Whilst AMD has slower performance-per-core, it acts as a tradeoff for AMDs massive amount of cores in the CPU. But since most games only use 1-2 cores, AMDs speciality is essentially useless in gaming.

So when playing games, expect Intel CPUs to be faster than AMD CPUs.

11sphere92 · Jan 29, 2015

the ram is different broh, some games need minimum 4gb ram, yet you got 8gb anyway.. so it might affect the results

okcnaline · Jan 29, 2015

Most Intel CPUs have higher processing power.

Tradesman1 · Jan 29, 2015

He's got more VRAM which helps and his CPU is stronger per core, gaming doesn't take a lot of cores

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