Playing at 2560x1400 was surprisingly demanding and here most gamers will have to settle with an average of 60fps if they are lucky. Even those seeking an average of 60fps will want a GTX 960 or R9 380/ 280X/ 7970 GHz. For a minimum of 60fps, you'll need a GeForce GTX 780 or Radeon R9 290, or the R9 390/ GTX 970 from the current generation. Conclusionįolks looking to play Fallout 4 with the highest possible quality settings will want a reasonably powerful GPU, even at 1080p. Interestingly the same variation in memory speeds had little impact on the AMD FX-8350's performance, as the processor was just 13% faster with the quicker memory.Īnyway, we found this interesting and it would suggest that Fallout 4 fans with Intel hardware will want to ensure they are running their memory as fast possible. Yes, we know there's a significant difference between the now obsolete 1333MHz memory speed and 2400MHz, but from memory I don't recall it having anything like that kind of impact on gaming performance. Turns out it was, as moving the memory back up to 2400MHz resulted in a massive 67% increase in minimum frame rate for the Core i7-4770K.Ī similar situation was found with the Core i3-4360, which went from a minimum of 41fps with DDR3-1333 memory to a minimum of 65fps with DDR3-2400. It was quickly spotted that the memory was running much slower than it ought to be, though we weren't entirely sure this was the cause of the massive deficit. At first we accidently tested the Core i7-4770K with the memory clocked at 1333MHz and were perplexed by the much weaker than expected performance. When benchmarking the Intel Haswell processors, the memory speed in the BIOS kept reverting back to 1333MHz (was an issue with the BIOS which has now been fixed) at every processor change rather than holding the DDR3-2400 XMP (Extreme Memory Profile).