Starfield: 44 CPU Benchmark, Intel vs. AMD, Ultra, High, Medium & Memory Scaling

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1. The fact that I have an MSI X570 Gaming Edge (I know, VRM isn't the best I found), Nvidia 3080 Ti, R9 3900X and the frames are in the toilet in cities while higher, well made products, I easily get over 100 FPS no issue on 1080p. I mean, christ, I get 90 to 100 FPS with Cyberpunk when it came out and still get that now. Bethesda just can't develop a game worth a crap.

2. AMD gimped Intel performance due to being exclusive partners of Bethesda. Clearly Intel would have done much better if AMD didn't make their performance worse! 😛

3. Reading the last few comment actually made me sick. The fanboyism is so strong that no one think logically anymore.
   Peace out.

4. why doing only 1080p benchmark? is almost irrevelant imo

5. I though I could get away with using my 2700x till my next AM5 upgrade but Nope this game comes out!
   Just brought the 5800x3d, may the temps have mercy on me.
   Thanks for this Amazing and comprehensive benchmark!

6. My $300 9900k bought 3 years ago seems like the better deal than the 5600x after all. The extra cores paid off in the end.

7. Ahh my 5 2600 is 45 fps on medium good enough for another year then

8. How TF didn't I see this video 10 hours ago?!
   I've been breaking my head for 2 weeks on an upgrage for Starfield for my i5-10400, GTX1650 and I just ordered 7800XT thinking it would make the job. SHIT.

9. All you gotta do is spend a few grand and voila!! You are playing Starfield.

10. Poorly optimised game from Bethesda? Colour me completely unsurprised. They've been polishing that turd of an engine for decades. It was trash for Fallout 3 and it's trash now.

    Game journalists need to start calling them out instead of licking their boots every time they re-release Skyrim.

11. What would ya recommend for me to get better frames running i7-8700k 32gb ddr4 3200-3600(not sure which) rtx 3080 ti windows 10 and playing in 1440p?

12. Can't believe these numbers. This game must be terribly optimized.

13. So this is a game that is made for Intel CPU + AMD GPU.
    That's why it performs so well on my 13900k with 7900 XTX 🙂

14. Will using HUB settings on a 7900xt push the load to the CPU? Will the CPU bottleneck areas still load up the CPU even at 3440x1440p? Because I just have a 5900x. Basically, do HUB settings put the load back onto my CPU at 3440×1440 or will there just always be major CPU gains to be had in cities and forests no matter what?

15. 1060 6gb, i5 7600k, 16GB ram DDR4, game on SSD. It's "not bad" because it's going between 25-40+ fps without having stuttering on medium settings, but the freezing problem is hell, sometimes it just freeze one time per few minutes so it's "okay", but when it starts freezing 2-3 times per minute… especially when i zoom with scopes in fights since i wanted to play stealth sniper build. I can take those fps to play the game with that style, but ffs those freezes making me having migraine and rolling eyes every time because when the game freeze, it's freezed for like 3sec. Hope some bigger patch will fix it because it's most annoying shit ever.

16. This game runs and looks great on my rig Rx 6800 and i7 9700 non k but I really wanna upgrade too the 13600kf and get some ddr5 6400-7200 ram

17. my 8700k got 1 last game to shine in before retiring. simply because the game sucks at optimisation lol

18. so even if you have a good brand of GPU, the cpu you are using will help how many fps you will get?

19. Being an amd sponsored title, was expecting zen to be at the top of the pile

20. Why doesn't HU test 5900X anymore?

21. It's fun to watch everyone benchmarking a Bethesda game using the Creation Engine and worrying that the problem is that the latest and greatest hardware can't keep up with new game launches 😂

22. 9900K @ 5.1ghz and a 2080super gets me about 40 fps in the area just after creating your character. It’s really bad 🙁
    That’s on 1440P. On 1080P it’s 50fps but averages towards 40 again.

    At this point I just booted the Xbox version, since the quality is better at kinda the same performance

23. Thx god they add the 7200 ddr5 for 13900 series ! Never now than less

24. Are you able to do this type of benchmarking for GPUs? (Havent looked to see if you had)

25. Bench mark vega 56 and 64. You'll be very surprised!!!

26. Yeah i think this is a gpu title I wouldnt worry too much about the cpu benchmarks if I were you gents. . a few patches later and i think the game will be allright

27. This data… wow. Just wow…

    Very impressive work, this will 100% drive my buying decision

28. this is why i never uderstood this benchmarking shit i avg around 80 to 100 fps with a avg of 75 on full ultra with a 3700x this is why i trust no one….

29. Where is the 5800 x3d it should be up there at the top or close to it

30. I couldn't belive how bad my performance was with a 3950x and 7900xtx, thought i must have had a driver issue or something but nope… just a shitty bethesda game.

31. It's so demanding game, yet it looks much worse than Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt next gen, or even Red Dead Redemption 2 from 2018. It doesn't have any logic and sense. I didn't saw so poorly optimized AAA game for quite some time.

32. so glad I did opt for AM5 and not the 5800x3D

33. R5 7500F/7600/7600X = 73/80/82. Something is not OK. Difference in spec btw 7500f and 7600 is much smaller than 7600 and 7600x, but diff. In fps is off by a lot. If its tdp than 7600x would crush bot by a lot. If its core clock again diff is grater for 7600 vs 7600x compared to 7600 vs 7500f. This benchmark has so big deviation that it is QUESTIONABLE for its results.

34. This game is so CPU limited its a bit embarrassing for BGS. Was there really no way to expand work to other cores? What's the CPU doing? The game looks good but it's not doing a single thing another game hasn't done for years.
    Also this game is PERFECT for frame generation yet it didn't ship with either FSR3 or DLSS3.

35. Pity we are all gonna sit and pretend this game isn't unoptimized plebian trash. We are just going to keep up this charade for a few more months until some 15 year old from Turkey fixes the game with a 3kb patch on nexus mods.

36. This game is clearly broken on AMD. 80 fps 1% lows for Intel i9 13900K vs 55 for Zen 3 Ryzen 9 is like 80% more perfomance.

37. The i3 13100 is equal to the 5800x3d 🤯

38. Its time to trash my 8700k…

39. I think it's funny as supposedly it's not possible, but I'm gaming Starfield on a 5600X and an RX590 Med, at 1440. Is there a way that you guys might try this and see just how capable this GPU is?

40. I don't know how your benchmarks go but i get more fps in starfield at 1440p with a R7 7700X and a RX 7900XT on Ultra

41. What about DDR5 RAM with 6400 MHz für ryzen 7700X???

42. 3:19

43. werent u screaming how great 5800x3d is?

44. Man… 9700k gang

45. got a i7 11k and it consumes all of my cpu?

46. So what I took from this is that I can wait yet one more year before building a completely new system to replace my old great OC'd 7700k. Unreal the value I've gotten out of it for so long.

47. so bad optimization

48. I normally play iracing but Starfield has cost me a lot of pennies! I was happy with a 10700k, 32gb@3600, 2080Ti for Sim racing, but like many, I've waited a long time for Starfield, and I didn't want to run it @ 50fps with these specs 😢