I am not a computer person at all, but I can tell you that I nearly bought this CPU but decided on the 7 2700X because it was the same price at my local store and has 2 extra cores. The CPU I chose does benchmark lower than the 5 3600 but it's still enough for me. As a general rule, the game will be happy at 1 car per physical core. You can still play with more than that, but FPS might dip below 60 without taking steps to increase FPS.