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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Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
It does that at 50W, mind, and it's not clear it can clock high enough (even on desktop) to overcome the IPC differenceJohnnyLose - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Anyone knows when Zen 3 is coming to laptops?UNCjigga - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I think it might be a while. My guess is we might actually see Zen 3 come to desktop APUs for the OEM market (OEMs won't have to redesign much as these should be drop-in compatible with their current Ryzen 4000-series designs) and mobile may wait until mid-2021.JohnnyLose - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Anyone knows when Zen 3 is coming to laptops?69369369 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Soon™MojiSama - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Why is GIMP launch slower on high core CPUs vs lower core CPUs, they don’t explain that. It’s almost 2x slower to launch GIMP on 5900x vs 5600x (under the Office and Science benchmarks.Icehawk - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I thought the lack of discussion of that and how the 5600 was faster in a bunch of other benchmarks was strange. Clearly it has to do with being on a single CCX but some detail and probing would be nice.Whelp, good to see general performance increased but for gaming looks like we are GPU bound for any higher end workloads (I run 4k or 1440p at worst) so I'll just keep praying I can get one of the new cards from either party and not worry about the CPU.
zodiacfml - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
""As it turns out, GIMP does optimizations for every CPU thread in the system, which requires that higher thread-count processors take a lot longer to run.""factual - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Wow, hopefully there'll be Black Friday deals for this beast!just4U - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The shop I deal with is offering some nice package deals with some of the new CPU's giving up to $100 off.. Im guessing AMD gave them all some room to play here.