The AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review
by Ian Cutress on February 11, 2019 11:45 AM ESTGaming: Strange Brigade (DX12, Vulkan)
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark which offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. AMD has boasted previously that Strange Brigade is part of its Vulkan API implementation offering scalability for AMD multi-graphics card configurations.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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For Strange Brigade, only gaming at 720p shows significant differences between CPUs.
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Smell This - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
Thanks, Yall!"Where possible, we will extend out testing to include faster memory modules either at the same time as the review or a later date."
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It would be sweet with some OC action, too.
Most impressive is the jump between the AMD Ryzen 2500X/1500X and Ryzen 3 2300X/1300X --- roughly 10% +/-. Good work, AMD.
I guess this is the difference between Zen and Zen+. With 7nm Zen ++ arriving soon, and Zen+++ next year, the CPU times they are a changin' ...
mr_yogi - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
Love the inclusion of the i5 2500K, great job.Valantar - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
These are both available from Norwegian retailers, though prices are ... not good. The 2500X costs as much as the 2600X, and the 2300X is barely cheaper than the 2600 (though admittedly the 2600 is _really_ cheap).urbanman2004 - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
Reviewing CPU's that'll never reach the mainstream open market. Smart idea Anandtech 😉mikato - Thursday, April 4, 2019 - link
Are you saying it doesn't count if they are sold in prebuilt systems?tygrus - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
AMD APUs (2400G & 2300G) try to keep atleast 50% of the power budget for GPU so the CPU load graph doesn't show the whole picture. It shows the power used for all chips for CPU load not CPU+GPU load. While having a mixture of CPU-only & CPU+GPU chips present means you want to focus on the CPU the reader needs to be reminded that the CPU+GPU load will be higher.I wish AMD had option for 95w TDP APU to compete with Intel models. With more CPU cores/headroom and 25% more GPU to use that 95w+ peak.
azrael- - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link
One reason to favor the 2300X and 2500X over the 'G' series CPUs is that Pinnacle Ridge supports ECC whereas Raven Ridge does not.Icehawk - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link
I'm begging here - can you please, please, please show us your config settings for the HEVC encoding? You get rates that are 6x+ faster than I can achieve - my O/C'd 8700k gets ~45fps with 1080 Fast 3500 settings using all else as default in Handbrake. I'd really love to hit the #s you get with just an i5. Help!Ian Cutress - Friday, February 15, 2019 - link
Check page 3?https://www.anandtech.com/show/13945/the-amd-ryzen...
xrror - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link
One additional savings for OEMs - they won't need to populate the motherboard components for integrated video on systems shipped with these.No need for displayport/HDMI/VGA connectors and associated filtering bits, so that saves a bit more on total BOM for the OEM.