Need help to understand CPU requirements.

[Medivh]

If the game require a 3.2 GHz CPU and my CPU have 2.8 GHz but with turbo boost 3.4 GHz I'll be able to run this game?

[SenMithrarin85]

I would imagine so yes. However the cpu requirements in game specs are never accurate. they're either too low or too high. its usually just whatever hardware the one guy that tested the pc version had in his system at the time...

[𝔇ave]

as long as your cpu has the required instruction sets to run the game and any DRM attached to the game you should be fine

[_I_]

depends on the cpu gen
later gen cpus have a higher ipc (instructions per clock)

ex.
if the game requires 2.5ghz aii/core2 seres cpu, a 2ghz i series will do the job

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

What game?

Just mentioning the frequency is a bad measurement so I assume it's an old game and you're fine.

Intel is even vaguer with what the turbo boost mean with the latest generation but it's kinda what the processor can reach on one core if allowed to leave TDP and not using AVX instructions.

For the AMD FX processors some viewed them as 4 cores of two threads each and some as 8 cores with two cores on one module. AMD used the later and if one use that those processors kinda only had half of the compute capacity of the Intel processors at the same clock due to having smaller cores. So to compare 3.2 GHz AMD FX vs Intel Core would had been totally unfair. The new Ryzen chips are more on par with the Intel ones.

I'd assume most newer games mention the CPU model to beat instead and that may not make it all that much clear for you either. You can check what CPU you have and then google userbenchmark yourcpu theothercpu and then see if yours outperform the other in both single-core and multi-core loads because if it do so then you should be fine. If it's behind in something maybe it work good enough anyway.

Care to give a game and your CPU as an example?

Dave님이 먼저 게시:

as long as your cpu has the required instruction sets to run the game and any DRM attached to the game you should be fine

As long as you don't care about performance whatsoever. But that's relevant ..

[𝔇ave]

Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism님이 먼저 게시:

What game?

Just mentioning the frequency is a bad measurement so I assume it's an old game and you're fine.

Intel is even vaguer with what the turbo boost mean with the latest generation but it's kinda what the processor can reach on one core if allowed to leave TDP and not using AVX instructions.

For the AMD FX processors some viewed them as 4 cores of two threads each and some as 8 cores with two cores on one module. AMD used the later and if one use that those processors kinda only had half of the compute capacity of the Intel processors at the same clock due to having smaller cores. So to compare 3.2 GHz AMD FX vs Intel Core would had been totally unfair. The new Ryzen chips are more on par with the Intel ones.

I'd assume most newer games mention the CPU model to beat instead and that may not make it all that much clear for you either. You can check what CPU you have and then google userbenchmark yourcpu theothercpu and then see if yours outperform the other in both single-core and multi-core loads because if it do so then you should be fine. If it's behind in something maybe it work good enough anyway.

Care to give a game and your CPU as an example?

Dave님이 먼저 게시:

as long as your cpu has the required instruction sets to run the game and any DRM attached to the game you should be fine

As long as you don't care about performance whatsoever. But that's relevant ..

the question wasn't about performance or how well the game will run. the question was will the game run. my answer would have been very different had the question been "how well will my cpu run a game with those requirements"

[Arya]

There's more to it than GHz. What kind of CPU does the game list as a minimum requirement, and what do you have?

Some CPUs have really low clock speeds, but are actually really powerful thanks to high IPC. AMD Ryzen-7 is a great example, it's clocked low but is actually one of the most powerful gaming CPUs on the planet. Others(like AMD FX) are clocked really high, but fall on their faces when used for gaming.

[_I_]

ghz is like comparing car speeds via rpm instead of mph

each gen cpu has different ipc (similar to cars transmission)

[Omega]

Google: CPU A vs CPU B

Doing that will give you a rough idea of how two CPUs compare. Same applies to GPUs.

[pasa]

For most software the "minimal" and "recommended" HW seation is a thing the sales dept requires and bugs the dev team with. Which can't get it through that this makes very little sense. Consequently the figures that are posted are like pulled from a hat.

In practie you just have to try on your config and see what happens. For games you usualy have plenty of configuration options to help out. And a general wisdom is that most times the GPU is the limiting factor, not the cpu.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Forget any GHZ #s they are meaningless; look at the raw performance of the CPU model instead

[OLDMAN🎅]

I have a saying Buy the best and screw the rest.

[LiMpY]

Medivh님이 먼저 게시:

If the game require a 3.2 GHz CPU and my CPU have 2.8 GHz but with turbo boost 3.4 GHz I'll be able to run this game?

As you see, no real answer. For one reason.
You didn't mention the game and the cpu model.

[Medivh]

OK, sorry for not giving more details. The game is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the cpu requeriments : Intel Core i5-2300, 2.80 GHz. My CPU: i7-7500U, 2.70 GHz, up to 3.50GHZ (https://ark.intel.com/products/95451/Intel-Core-i7-7500U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3-50-GHz-). My RAM and GPU are better than the minium requeriments but im not sure about the CPU.

[tacoshy]

Well it requires an old i5 quad core CPU and you have a "weak" laptop dual core CPU. Should be playable imo but might not be to much fun.
You have a 14d owning and 2h playing refund timeline to try it out.

[Sapph]

Medivh님이 먼저 게시:

OK, sorry for not giving more details. The game is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the cpu requeriments : Intel Core i5-2300, 2.80 GHz. My CPU: i7-7500U, 2.70 GHz, up to 3.50GHZ (https://ark.intel.com/products/95451/Intel-Core-i7-7500U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3-50-GHz-). My RAM and GPU are better than the minium requeriments but im not sure about the CPU.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-7500U-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2300/m171274vsm291

Basically identical in performance.
Although the 7500U is weaker in things that need more cores.