{"id":20226,"date":"2026-10-02T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20226"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:24:15","slug":"gears-of-war-e-day-is-an-uncharacteristically-cpu-heavy-unreal-engine-5-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20226","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War E-Day is an uncharacteristically CPU-heavy Unreal Engine 5 game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0 0 1em; padding:0.6em 0.9em; border:1px solid #d0d7de; border-radius:6px; background:#f6f8fa; color:#444; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong> The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Jake Roach  &bull; October 1, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Unreal Engine 5 isn\u2019t particularly heavy on the CPU, but Gears of War E-Day changes that narrative. If you have a monitoring overlay open when you load into the game, you\u2019ll immediately notice your CPU pinned at between 80% and 90% utilization, which is a far cry from most other UE5 titles. Even stranger is that the scaling between CPUs is clear. For instance, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D netted 42% higher performance than the Ryzen 5 7600X at 1080p with the High graphics preset.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve tested a lot of UE5 games with our pool of CPUs to evaluate them, not only for our rankings of the best CPUs for gaming , but also for our ongoing CPU benchmark hierarchy .<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:2em; padding:1em; border-left:4px solid #0073aa; background:#f5f7fa;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Jake Roach  &bull; October 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.5em 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/cpus\/gears-of-war-e-day-is-an-uncharacteristically-cpu-heavy-unreal-engine-5-game-benchmarking-25-cpus-from-intel-and-amd-and-investigating-low-core-mode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article at Tom&#8217;s Hardware &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story. Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull; Jake Roach &bull; October 1, 2026 Unreal Engine 5 isn\u2019t particularly heavy on the CPU, but Gears of War E-Day changes that narrative. If you have a monitoring overlay open when you load into the game,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20226\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}