The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review: CPUs on Steroids
by Ian Cutress on August 10, 2017 9:00 AM ESTShadow of Mordor
The next title in our testing is a battle of system performance with the open world action-adventure title, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (SoM for short). Produced by Monolith and using the LithTech Jupiter EX engine and numerous detail add-ons, SoM goes for detail and complexity. The main story itself was written by the same writer as Red Dead Redemption, and it received Zero Punctuation’s Game of The Year in 2014.
A 2014 game is fairly old to be testing now, however SoM has a stable code and player base, and can still stress a PC down to the ones and zeroes. At the time, SoM was unique, offering a dynamic screen resolution setting allowing users to render at high resolutions that are then scaled down to the monitor. This form of natural oversampling was designed to let the user experience a truer vision of what the developers wanted, assuming you had the graphics hardware to power it but had a sub-4K monitor.
The title has an in-game benchmark, for which we run with an automated script implement the graphics settings, select the benchmark, and parse the frame-time output which is dumped on the drive. The graphics settings include standard options such as Graphical Quality, Lighting, Mesh, Motion Blur, Shadow Quality, Textures, Vegetation Range, Depth of Field, Transparency and Tessellation. There are standard presets as well.
We run the benchmark at 1080p and a native 4K, using our 4K monitors, at the Ultra preset. Results are averaged across four runs and we report the average frame rate, 99th percentile frame rate, and time under analysis.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming 8G Performance
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ASUS GTX 1060 Strix 6G Performance
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Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury 4G Performance
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Sapphire Nitro RX 480 8G Performance
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coolhardware - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
Hi B3an, what will you primarily be using your 1950X for?I do not really have the workload to justify that CPU, but I wish I did ;-)
Mugur - Sunday, August 13, 2017 - link
I suggest you to read other TR reviews. Some were testing GPU rendering and they show that even in this case you need the best cpu you can get.minde - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
i see in foto on amd processor MADE IN CHINA . without comment. what differencebetween intel and amd quality , class
mr_tawan - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
TSMC perhaps?tuxRoller - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
I'm very curious as to how this will perform with smt enabled and numa being exposed.franzeal - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
On page 1, does Ryzen use an AMD implementation of SMT or hyper-threading (i.e. licensed from Intel). I've been under the impression it's the former, and referring to SMT as hyper-threading in this instance is incorrect. Intel's was not the first or the only way to implement SMT.Oxford Guy - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
When you went with 2400 speed RAM to slow down TR you forgot to make it single channel.franzeal - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
Error in Dolphin benchmark description: "Results are given in minutes, where the Wii itself scores 17.53 minutes." should be results are given in seconds.franzeal - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
On the last page it states "On the side of the 1920X, users will again see more cores, ECC support, and over double the number of PCIe lanes compared to the Core i7-7820X for $100 difference."According to the accompanying chart it's a ~$200 difference. Either the chart is wrong or that statement.
quadi9 - Saturday, August 12, 2017 - link
I picked up an I9-7900x at a local Micro Center for $899 this week. And it is running stable at 4.6 GHZ. How well does the Ryzen overclock? My Blender BMW score was 181 seconds. Just opened the file and clicked Render.