Console CPU runs at 1.6 ghz in case of PS4 with a 7850 gpu, xone cpu 1.75 ghz but with a 7770 gpu. so.....i would say i5 3.3ghz with 7870 both overclockable are more than little better, or i could say that even if consoles run "the minimum" specs, the game could still run with lesser graphics than consoles on PC.
Those are 8-core CPUs on the consoles. Now I'm skeptical that they can actually perform at 2x a 4-core, or that the game can use those cores, but the difference is less than it would appear to be. There's also the "lowest common denominator" problem of programming the PC with DirectX 11 over hardware from different manufacturers, that makes execution on the consoles more efficient.
So I don't think the assertion that the PC minimum spec is approximately the level of the consoles is off by too much. But that wasn't my point. My point is that believing you need to spend thousands of dollars to run this game on your PC is a mistake, and asserting it with the intent of badmouthing CDPR or making others believe it is the very definition of FUD.
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I have a i5 4670 @ 3,4 GHz and a MSI GTX 770 2 GB, is this enough for the recommended requirements? Also, could someone explain why they recommend a i7 instead of a i5? I always thought it didn't make a difference for gaming.
We'll have to wait and see. I'm skeptical of the need for a Core i7 at recommended level. I run compute-bound work on Core i5 and i7's all the time, and the difference is not so much as to assert the Core i7 is needed for any certain level of performance, And if an AMD FX can achieve recommended level, I'd be very surprised to find a Core i5 wasn't enough.
What I think is more likely, but not mentioned, is that the game would benefit, a lot, from being installed to an SSD.
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@Guy N'wah should i go to i5-4690k or up to i7? and what motherboard should i get?
Motherboard is probably the easier of the two questions. Motherboards equipped with the Z97 chipset are enough to accommodate any Haswell or eventually Broadwell processor and two graphics cards in SLI. There are very fine ones from the major manufacturers (ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock). (Yes, ASRock is an ASUS label, but their motherboards are independently designed.) Just get the one that has the bells and whistles you want.
We don't know whether the requirement for a Core i7 at "recommended" is valid based on internal testing, or padding based on assumptions. The fact that an AMD FX meets "recommended" level suggests to me that a Core i5 is actually more than adequate.