The FPS Review Weekender: Gears of War: E-Day Is the Rare Unreal Engine 5 Game That Actually Wants More CPU Cores, Plus 10 More Hardware Reviews

[David_Schroth]

Gears of War: E-Day landed this week and did something we almost never see from Unreal Engine 5: it pinned CPUs and scaled cleanly with core count. That makes it as much a CPU story as a GPU one. Elsewhere, The Witcher 3 Remastered gave benchmarkers some very strange scaling to chew on, and the […]

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[Peter_Brosdahl]

Cool to know about E-Day. Not my kind of game, but good to know that someone finally put in the effort. I almost want to get it just to see it give the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX in my laptop or 5800X3D/9800XD rigs a workout.

 

[DrezKill]

Gears 4 and 5 were good examples of how to use Unreal Engine 4 (although Gears 5 was, and still is, buggy as all f*ck), and I bet E-Day will finally show us a good implementation of UE5.