Partnership EA and Intel for Battlefield 6 still leaves Blue Time behind AMD

Intel was selected by EA as a partner for Battlefield 6. The company received a teaspoon from Eletronic Arts that wants to bet on Xess 2 technology, which should allow UPSCALING, FRAME GENERATION AND LOW LACTENCE SUPPORT ON TITLE LAUNCH DAY.

In addition, with the recent SDK 1.2, Xess 2 should be available not only in Intel’s GPUS ARC, but also in GPUs of other suppliers, such as Nvidia and AMD.

Intel’s Core Ultra and Core CPUS will also receive specific optimizations. They include optimizations in the scale, ensuring that game processes are run on the right threads, and should also be supported by APO.

The results seen in the closed beta and released by a popular Twitch streamer, however, suggest that The partnership was not enough for the performance of Intel processors to equate those of AMD. At least, not yet.

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Early results

Bruhskey, the streamer, had access to Battlefield 6 closed beta. He said his computer with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3D with 3D v-cache technology was capable of generating significantly higher frame rates than an unidentified friend who used an Intel Core i9-14900k.

As it is a closed beta, Confidentiality agreements prevent it and other users from sharing screen catches. However, it is reliable information.

Everything suggests that The latest version of the frostbite engine, which feeds the Battlefield 6, favors processors with large last level caches and the 9800x3D has 96 MB.

Remembering that for a game with strong emphasis on PVP, Any advantage can make all the difference.

Bruhskey’s equipment has a 9800x3D, A GPU GeForce RTX 5080, 32 GB of DDR4-6400 Memory in 1: 1 FCLK: UCLK and a Nvidia Navidia Graph Driver. Because the frostbite engine allows you to display FPS results separately, you can identify being the performance bottleneck is in the CPU or GPU.

Like this, Bruhskey’s equipment reached 330 to 370 fps by the GPU and 310 to 330 FPS by the CPU, with a total system of the system from 6.7 to 8.5 ms.

In the case of the streamer friend, the equipment with i9-14900k, the CPU FPS result is about 210 fps. This puts the Intel processor at a performance disadvantage of approximately 30%.

Company situation

Unsurprisingly, Intel is in a crisis situation. The company should dismiss 24,000 employees and end projects in 3 countries. Nevertheless, there is still hope that Apple resumes the partnership with the blue team in the future. And this hope must be shared by EA.

So far, Intel has provided its dedicated and heavy L2 cache customer processors. However, she is migrating to larger shared L3 caches with her future processors for New Lake-S Desktop.

Today, the faster Arrow Lake-S Processor comes with large 3 MB L2 caches per nucle p, but with only 36 MB of L3 cache shared between eight p and sixteen nuclei E.

Nova Lake-S, on the other hand, presents a maximum setting of 16p + 32E + 4LPE nuclei, twice the current nuclei count. This besides a large 144 MB L3 cache.

Thus, it is very likely that the performance of Intel users will face Bruhskey’s bottleneck. But perhaps in the future, fans of the blue team may be in a situation of advantage.

Sobre Battlefield 6

Battlefield 6 should be one of the major releases of the year and is scheduled for October 10. In the first trailers of the campaign and the multiplayer, there is a glimpse of the updated frostbite engine and the level of destruction that the game should offer.

An open beta was also announced from August 7th. Probably, problems with optimization will continue and AMD CPUs should perform better performance.

It remains to be seen if performance will be improved for launch.

Fontes: Tech Power Up e WccFtech.