AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 5950X, 5900X, 5800X and 5600X Tested
by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: Borderlands 3
As a big Borderlands fan, having to sit and wait six months for the EPIC Store exclusive to expire before we saw it on Steam felt like a long time to wait. The fourth title of the franchise, if you exclude the TellTale style-games, BL3 expands the universe beyond Pandora and its orbit, with the set of heroes (plus those from previous games) now cruising the galaxy looking for vaults and the treasures within. Popular Characters like Tiny Tina, Claptrap, Lilith, Dr. Zed, Zer0, Tannis, and others all make appearances as the game continues its cel-shaded design but with the graphical fidelity turned up. Borderlands 1 gave me my first ever taste of proper in-game second order PhysX, and it’s a high standard that continues to this day.
BL3 works best with online access, so it is filed under our online games section. BL3 is also one of our biggest downloads, requiring 100+ GB. As BL3 supports resolution scaling, we are using the following settings:
- 360p Very Low, 1440p Very Low, 4K Very Low, 1080p Badass
BL3 has its own in-game benchmark, which recreates a set of on-rails scenes with a variety of activity going on in each, such as shootouts, explosions, and wildlife. The benchmark outputs its own results files, including frame times, which can be parsed for our averages/percentile data.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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ExarKun333 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
And 'Hammer' 4-5 years before then, to credit AMD then as well. It has been a long time since we had something this exctiing.lmcd - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
IMO Sandy Bridge was this exciting. The IPC on that release was absolutely insane compared to Nehalem.ingwe - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Agreed. That definitely seemed like the last big excitement though. Can't wait to upgrade!Slash3 - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
Yep. My case was a bit different, but I went from a launch date 2600K which had been running at 5GHz to a 3950X last November. It was a pretty solid single core upgrade (although not as dramatic as you'd think since the 2600K was so topped out - CPU-Z SC score went from 478 to 545) but the multi core performance obviously blew it entirely out of the water.AMD's 5950X, though? Single core CPU-Z score is ~680. Six eighty! Stock!
The jump in single core performance between the 5950X and the 3950X is almost -double- what it was in going from my 2600K to the 3950X. That's absolutely monstrous.
Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Fair point there, Slash. This may indeed be the best thing since Sandy, and damn was I excited when that released!citan x - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Micro center had some in stock at the store even though there was a huge line to enter when I got there 5 minutes before opening. However, they only had 5600x and 5800x in stock. I wanted a 5950x and they said they never got those in stock. I have not found any 5950x in stock anywhere.charlesg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Yeah I'm wondering if the 5950x is actually available yet? Or if some bots had insider info on pages to buy them the instant they were available...Holliday75 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I am seeing them listed on eBay starting a little over $1,000 and going up to $2,000.nandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The listings say "Locate in Store - Unavailable Online", with a small amount of 5800X and 5600X available at my store. So no bots, you have to show up in person. It also says "Limit 1 per household" although I imagine you could get a couple of friends with different credit cards and get 1 of each model per person.nandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I can't tell you when it will be back in stock, but that's not unusual for day 1.