Last month, PLAYERUNKNOWNN?S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) released a patch with optimizations that improved performance for those running a CPU with six or more CPU cores in their gaming rigs. PUBG uses Unreal Engine 4, which is capable of producing solid image quality, but can be rather taxing on your PC hardware. This Early Access game developed by Bluehole, Inc. has already sold over 11 million copies and recently passed up Dota 2's record of 1.29 million concurrent players with over 1.34 million concurrent players last weekend.

Those numbers are insane and that means there are nearly 11.5 million PC gamers out there looking for a chicken dinner. To get the best performance from PUBG you need a solid graphics card and processor. There are dozens of sites that have benchmark results for video cards, but when you look for CPU numbers there are just a handful. We were curious how many CPU cores you needed for PUBG and couldn't find any results that showed benchmarks on the same processor with different core configurations.