With a better idea of how The Elder Scrolls Online responds to graphics hardware, we turn our attention to more platform-oriented comparisons. Does the game respond to processor swaps?

Although there is a bit of differentiation between the handful of CPUs we're testing, even AMD's budget-oriented FX-4170 maintains at least 30 FPS through our benchmark, complemented by a Radeon R9 270.


Given a consistent graphics card, we observe relatively low frame time variance between these processors (though Intel's Core i5 and i7 facilitate the most impressive results).

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The game clearly favors Nvidia graphics cards, at least with the build tested. But as you also see with the absence of SLI and Crossfire profiles, driver work isn't done on the game, so it's possible AMD just hadn't optimised their drivers while Nvidia had, giving Nvidia a huge artificial advantage. Time will tell if that's the case.