The quad core CPU requirement in particular has been controversial.
Folks with high-end rigs can look forward to higher resolutions along with better textures, lighting and characters models.
Our test rig was outfitted with the IntelCore i7-4770Kto remove CPU bottlenecks that could influence high-end GPU scores.

Dragon Age: Inquisition’s built-in benchmark renders a short scene as fast as possible.
We tested the game at three common desktop display resolutions: 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 using DX11.
Meanwhile ambient occlusion is set to HBAO (horizon-based ambient occlusion) and multisampling anti-aliasing is set to 2xMSAA.