Ray Tracing games will also require CPU with more threads

PCGamesN 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.”