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spoke to DICE technical director Christian Holmquist and got to hear that the NVIDIA RTX-enabled version of Battlefield 5 also requires a more powerful processor. In order to get the game running well, gamers will need a processor with more cores than the standard recommended specifications. To get optimal performance, DICE says you will need a processor with at least 12 threads, like the AMD Ryzen 5 2600. This gives AMD an advantage over Intel, as the former offers more cores for less money.
“What we have done with our DXR implementation is we go very wide on a lot of cores to offload that work,” explained Holmquist, “so we’re likely going to require a higher minimum or recommended spec for producing RT. And very wide is the best way for the consumer in that regard, with a four-core or six-core machine.
“We haven’t communicated any of the specs yet so they might change, but I think that a six-core machine – it doesn’t have to be aggressively clocked – but 12 hardware threads is what we kind of designed it for. But it might also work well on a higher clocked eight thread machine.”
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by Thomas De Maesschalck 
Price, big questions on real performance and now "special" drivers (as if no one will remember the "driver tricks" that GPU makers on both sides used to pull on the market, all make me want to just wait and see on this one. First adopters are welcome to leap. I think I'll wait and see just how disappointed those buyers are or aren't in a few months down the road. I'm not confident in all these promises and with now hearing that the driver has to do more "work" makes me wonder just what's going on here. It could be a great new wave or it could be overpriced BS. Wait and let the analysis come before spending hard earned $$/Eur/etc
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