Old intel CPU

A simple case study for any Techs browsing this, for science -

My Xeon downstairs comfortably runs all these games at 1080p/High/60fps:

The Witcher 3

Dark Souls 3

GTA V

PUBG

Fear the Wolves

Fortnite

H1Z1

DOOM

Killing Floor 2

Destiny 2

Dishonored 1/2

Deus Ex HR/Mankind Divided

Prey

Final Fantasy XIV and XV

Resident Evil 2 Remake

SPECS -

Intel Xeon X5470 quad at 3.8 GHz.

16GB of relatively fast DDR3 main ram.

RX 580 graphics card w/ 8GB VRAM.

(IMPORTANT) That PC destroys base PS4 and Xbox One in both image quality and performance in every game listed.

It also bests the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X in frame-rate and 90% of the time image quality in all the games listed - running at 1080p.

^ And that's because this old beast of a Xeon desktop/server CPU soundly beats the crap out of the 2012 laptop CPUs used as the basis for every console above. Even the tweaked CPUs in the Pro and X.

The Core 2 Quad equivalent to the X5470 is also a high-clockable, high performing old beast. 

Moore's Law slowing down, and all that.

This Xeon is still very, very capable (people have paired them with GTX 1070/1080 at 1440p/60fps)

Overall, this PC is absolutely spec'd to run Apex well.

It's running many 2018-19 games very well as we speak.

Respawn, this is something you can patch. On that PC, I receive the warning:

"CPU does not support POPCNT"

This set can totally be emulated/reverse applied and hard-coded in a patch.

PS: This Intel Xeon X5470 supports these CPU instruction sets:

MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE 4.1, EM64T, VT-x.

Thank you for investigating (and supporting),

-REV