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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Peskarik - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Are these even possible to buy? Where I am at it was basically a paperlaunch, within 30 seconds sold out, and those who got lucky and managed to order will receive in 2 months!Same as with RTX 30X
Same story will be with the AMD 6000 GPUs.
Corona times, people have all the money lying around and the products have been super-hyped since months.
charlesg - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
I personally haven't seen evidence the 5900s actually are for sale anywhere, except on eBay with extreme markups and who knows if the sellers are legit? I clicked the NewEgg link on the email as soon as I got it, and it was already "sold out". Amazon doesn't list them at all. "Directly from AMD" doesn't list them.Some info from AMD would really be useful!
Smell This - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Micro Center Duluth (ATL) listed but sold out -- $20 discount when 'bundled' and a free copy of FC6Super_cereal - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I'm completely torn, I have an R5 1600 and a B350 motherboard, in terms of upgrade do I get a 3600 cheaply or do I splash for a 5600x and new motherboard? For reference I have an RTX 3070 gpunandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Get a 3700X or better, ignore Ryzen 5000 entirely, take a look at Zen 4 and AM5 socket when that comes out.lmcd - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
B350 generally do not have the power delivery to do better than a 3700X, I would pick that model.just4U - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Wait till black friday sales. Then go with whatever is priced right.. either a 3700x or the 5600x/mb combo.Smell This - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
If you are gaming Hi-Rez/Ultrawide, your R5 1600 should be really interesting for some benchies --- with your RTX 3070 gpu. Love to see what yah got
Jhlot - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Currently running AMD and going AMD upgrade soon but a 28w i7-1185 does 595 for R20 single thread while 5950X does 644. A 120w or better desktop i7 of that is going to be good.SNESChalmers - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I agree, Willow Cove cores at 120w would be pretty fast. Unfortunately Willow Cove (or more likely Golden Cove) won't be out on desktop until 2022 when AMD is pushing out Zen 4. Cypress Cove on 14nm is going to be very power hungry even if it catches back up to Zen 3