Launching the #CPUOverload Project: Testing Every x86 Desktop Processor since 2010
by Dr. Ian Cutress on July 20, 2020 1:30 PM ESTGaming Tests: Chernobylite
Despite the advent of recent TV shows like Chernobyl, recreating the situation revolving around the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the concept of nuclear fallout and the town of Pripyat have been popular settings for a number of games – mostly first person shooters. Chernobylite is an indie title that plays on a science-fiction survival horror experience and uses a 3D-scanned recreation of the real Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It involves challenging combat, a mix of free exploration with crafting and non-linear story telling. While still in early access, it is already picking up plenty of awards.
I picked up Chernobylite while still in early access, and was impressed by its ingame benchmark, showcasing complex building structure with plenty of trees and structures where aliasing becomes important. The in-game benchmark is an on-rails experience through the scenery, covering both indoor and outdoor scenes – it ends up being very CPU limited in the way it is designed. We have taken an offline version of Chernobylite to use in our tests, and we are testing the following settings combinations:
- 360p Low
- 1440p Low,
- 4K Low
- 1080p Max
For automation purposes, the game has no flags to initiate benchmark mode. We delete the movies from the install directory to speed up entering the game, and use timers and keypresses to start the benchmark mode. The game puts out a benchmark results file, however this only shows average frame rates, not frame times. In-game settings are controlled by copying pre-arranged .ini files into the relevant location. We do as many runs within 10 minutes per resolution/setting combination, and then take averages.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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ballsystemlord - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
@Ian, I love your 30,000 datapoints per article. Thanks for benching all these things.The AMD Phenom II 1090T (the original consumer 6 core!!!) is the CPU I'd like to see in the new suite.
Samus - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
Can you build an automated (filtering/categorizing) submission form for donations. I have many Xeon’s, especially the v3’s you have a shortage of, that I would be willing to donate for the cause.ballsystemlord - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
@ian @Samus Use email to contact each other.Dragonsteel - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
I'd like to see comparisons for the mainstream 300$ to 400$ CPUs starting with the i7 series.I'd really like to see i72600k on those benchmarks. Both stock and OC performance. I do run this CPU, bit am looking at upgrading soon to a comparable model. It just hasn't made sense until now with the new platform updates and more powerful GPUs.
Slaps - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
Would it be possible to add Counter-Strike Global Offensive? You can use the in-game console to load a demo (replay) of a professional match and let it run to get very real and consistent results.ET - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
What an amazing project. Great and detailed article, too. I'm looking forward to seeing the results. I appreciate Bench, and often when I see someone on Reddit ask about an upgrade from, say, a Phenom II 1055T to FX 6120, I go to Bench to make a comparison (though of course can't often find the exact models).Hopefully the UI for Bench will be improved. Search and auto-completion, comparing more than 2 CPUs, these are things I'd expect.
DanNeely - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
y-cruncher sprint graphs are missing.137ben - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
This is an ambitious project, and it is the reason I enjoy coming to Anandtech.ozzuneoj86 - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
This is amazing work! Thank you for doing this!One suggestion though... and I've mentioned this in past comments... please please please rename the lowest of the four quality settings for gaming benchmarks. The "IGP" setting is unnecessarily confusing to those looking at CPU benchmarks being run on a top of the line GPU. No IGP is involved. Just call it " VERY LOW" or something.
Meteor2 - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Yes x1000!(What does IGP even stand for in this context?!)