With closed beta access to Battlefield 6, popular Twitch streamers such as Bruhskey are able to tell us some early performance numbers for the game, and while their NDAs prevent them for sharing screenshots just yet, these can be counted as reliable sources. Bruhskey says that his AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor with 3D V-Cache technology is able to yield significantly higher frame-rates than the Intel Core i9-14900K powered build of his unnamed friend that's also on the early access. Apparently, the latest version of the Frostbite engine powering Battlefield 6 heavily favors processors with large last-level caches, and the 9800X3D has 96 MB of it.

Bruhskey's rig features a 9800X3D, a GeForce RTX 5080 GPU, 32 GB of DDR4-6400 memory in a 1:1 FClk:UClk ratio, and an unoptimized NVIDIA graphics driver. Frostbite engine puts out framerates for the CPU and GPU ends of the graphics pipeline separately, so you get to identify where your performance bottleneck is. Bruhskey's rig scored 330 to 370 FPS on the GPU end, and 310 to 330 FPS on the CPU end, with a total system latency of 6.7-8.5 ms. Here's where it gets interesting: Bruhskey claims that his friend's i9-14900K powered rig yields a CPU FPS of around 210 FPS, which puts the Intel processor at a roughly 30% performance disadvantage.