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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Hifihedgehog - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Bloodbathgagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Intel is preaching Moore's Law, AMD is executing it.FoRealz - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Wow 5600x beating the 5900x in almost everything?Hul8 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Regarding "Why Does AMD Not Promote 5.0 GHz?":I'm sure AMD would rather talk to journalists about why some of their CPUs boosts +150MHz beyond the advertized boost frequency, and whether that's normal, than about many of the CPUs not reaching the advertized number... They learned that lesson.
haukionkannel - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Indeed! They did market last time that some golden samples will boost up to xxx... and the peoples reaction was really Angry! Now under advertising, ower delivering gives them perks instead, so yeah They Are learning!Because in the end, independent reviews will reveal the real speed eventually, so it does not hurt at all under advertise, because reviews will do all the advertisement amd needs!
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100%poohbear - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Doesn't like much of a difference between the mainstream 5800x and the 10700k. It'll boil down to price when choosing between them. TBH i'm a bit disappointed as i was expecting a trouncing of Intel by AMD, but now we see AMD is just matching Intel, which is great, but since the 5xxx AMD CPUs are matching Intel's in price, we haven't really reached new heights of performance or anything. But i guess the silver lining is competition is back, and now performance matters again.WaltC - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
In some games, which is what I assume you are talking about since AMD walks away with almost all productivity software, AMD holds a lead of 30% +. Secondly, when game-engine optimization for Zen2/3 begins to mature and become widespread, AMD should walk away with most of it. It's interesting that in the titles where the most expensive Intel CPUs keep pace with the 5600X in terms of frame rates, the game engines were heavily optimized for Intel architectures.haukionkannel - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Well Intel did cut prices a lot to get even with amd, so amd has done its job in that part. Intel still have cpus that needs even more price cuts!But that is how market works. If Intel wants to compete with amd It has to do it with prices! And in the end it means you will get both companies products about the same price vs performance range! The point is that because of amd Intel has to compete with prices and as long as amd keep making these advancements Intel has to react and that means that there is competition and neither company can get too creedy! If one company has huge lead... it means higher prices. Now both companies has good products, the market will take of the prising!
duploxxx - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
you are smoking right?If you want better game performance you take the 5600X its faster everywhere vs 10700k and cheaper and on top very close performance on productivity not to mention way lower power consumption.
if you want more productivity and gaming you spend just a bit more and you get both. And still lower power consumption.
There are 0 reasons to buy an Intel cpu right now in this price range. THey will need to drop at least with 50-100$ to stay competitive. Not to mention there boards that lack PCIe-4.
lets see what smart memory does soon with ATI combo and there will even be less reasons to buy the Intel parts.