CPU Limited Gaming Operation

Watch Dogs is simply maxed out past the Core i5-4670K and Core i7-4790K, which is pretty incredible given that we are just using a single Radeon R9 280X. The Pentium G3258 is the slowest processor tested, while overclocking it to four.4GHz simply helps eke out a few more frames per second. At 1680x1050, the overclocked G3258 was 21% slower than the Core i3-4130 and 26% slower than the Cadre i5-4670K.

The G3258 does much ameliorate in Thief, delivering 46fps at 1920x1200 to match the AMD FX-8350. Overclocking the G3258 puts information technology alongside the Cadre i7 and Cadre i5 processors, boosting performance by as much as 34%.

Real-time strategy games are known for their CPU dependency and Visitor of Heroes 2 is no exception, though it doesn't seem that fussy with cores every bit long as they are fast enough. The Pentium G3258 delivered 48fps at 1680x1050 prior to any overclocking, which was still faster than the FX-8350 and much faster than the A10-7850K.

Overclocking the G3258 boosted performance by 20%, allowing for 58fps, which was simply 3fps shy of what the Cadre i5-4670K produced.

Before we overclocked the G3258 it averaged just 39fps at both 1680x1050 and 1920x1200, placing it alongside the A10-7850K and FX-4350. One time overclocked from 3.2GHz to 4.4GHz we received 28% more performance, assuasive the R9 280X to render an average of 50fps -- enough to match the Core i3-4130 while putting the G3258 just a few frames per second behind the FX-8350.

Arma 3 is some other CPU-intensive game and the Altis benchmark is a swell way of demonstrating that. Nevertheless, before any overclocking took place the G3258 was able to deliver playable performance with 59fps at 1680x1050. Overclocking gave a 27% performance bump, assuasive the G3258 to hit 75fps, on par with the Cadre i5-4670K.