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's so much faster, but here are some cherry picked reasons to be salty anyway"Okay then
Qasar - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
" Also bit dissapointment, that then can not reach faster clocks for third trial" so you still believe that clock speed is king ? that thats the only way to get performance ? intel is the one that NEEDS the faster clocks, not amd." And these prices, pretty sad. " how so ? seems reasonable to me, specially what intel kept charging for their cpu's before Zen.
ahenriquedsj - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
What happened at CS GO? LOL!rogerdpack - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
" in almost area "Thanny - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
"As we scale up this improvement to the 64 cores of the current generation EPYC Rome, any compute-limited workload on Rome should be freed in Naples."That would be a neat trick, since Naples is Zen 1. Pretty sure you meant Milan here.
tidywickham - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Researching gaming hardware for the first time. Thanks for this. Very helpful.mark625 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Dr. Cutress, this last line has me puzzled: "With +19% IPC on Zen3, Intel has no equal right now - not even Tiger Lake at 4.8 GHz - and has lost that single-threaded crown."I think this sentence would make more sense if you use "equivalent" instead of "equal". It is the AMD processors that have no equal. Or you could say "Intel has no equal to Ryzen", which would also make better sense.
Great article!
Tomatotech - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
The sentence is fine.The meaning is ‘Intel has nothing to offer to equal these AMD chips’.
meacupla - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
damn, these chips put my 2700X to shamezodiacfml - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Not with higher resolutions and half of the games. The high core/thread performance benefits low threaded workloads and old CPUs aren't far behind with high cores/threads