Grand Theft Auto V, also known as GTA V, appears to be turning into the most popular PC game of 2015. Back when we first published our performance review featuring 23 GPUs, we immediately received the request if we could also publish scores that one would obtain when using mid-range CPUs, which we did in a second performance review. Comments on this review led to yet another question: how well does the game run on an AMD FX processor? To answer this question, we once again instructed the Hardware.Info Test Lab crew to work their magic on this game for a couple of days.

For this third GTA V test, we used an AMD FX-8350 processor. This is an 8-core model from the FX series that is based on Vishera cores, has a base clock frequency of 4.0 GHz, and a Turbo frequency of 4.2 GHz. While this processor already hit the market in 2012 (our original review can be found here), AMD has not released a newer generation of FX processors since: more recent FX CPUs only feature higher clock speeds or increased efficiency. The FX-8350 is squarely in the middle of the FX pack. We combined the CPU with an MSI 990FXA Gaming motherboard, 8 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 memory, and a Samsung 840 Evo 1TB SSD. We ran the tests under Windows 8.1 x64, using the most recent AMD and Nvidia drivers.

Those who have a mid-range configuration will primarily be playing at the Full HD resolution (1920x1080), which we have tested using both Medium and Ultra settings. Additionally, we also tested Ultra HD (3840x2160) with Medium settings. Given the results from the previous test, we didn't bother testing Ultra HD with Ultra settings this time around.