The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising The Bar
by Andrei Frumusanu & Gavin Bonshor on July 7, 2019 9:00 AM EST** = Old results marked were performed with the original BIOS & boost behaviour as published on 7/7.
Gaming: World of Tanks enCore
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for a new and unreleased graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine will implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine run optimally on their system.
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| World of Tanks enCore | Driving / Action | Feb 2018 |
DX11 | 768p Minimum |
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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generalako - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
The only one being an apologist here is you CityBlue. In all your rage about Anandtech not testing with mitigations in place, you failed to every take up the fact that Anandtech has also tested the Intel setup with lower RAM speeds than the AMD one. Which is, to use your own words, "hard to take seriously...for not testing with a level, real-world playing field". Changing RAM speed is a simple push of the button on XMP, and both easily support time (not to mention that x570 motherboards isn't something the overwhelming majority of people, for obvious reasons, will buy). Remember, this was a traditional complaint from many users back when Zen 1 came out, and was tested by various vendors out there (like Gamersnexus) with lower RAM speeds and Intel counterparts.CityBlue - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
@generalako as I said in a previous comment, this article and it's benchmarking is so fundamentally flawed that I'm not willing to invest the time to read the article (I mean, seriously - what's the point?) so forgive me for not mentioning other errors/omissions that may have favoured AMD but two wrongs do not make a right, and especially not when the mitigation omission is so egregious.Meteor2 - Monday, July 15, 2019 - link
CityBlue, you're spot-on. +1.GreenReaper - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
This is true for the HEDT X-series motherboard as well. 1.40 is from March 2018. There have been three updates since then, including two new instances of microcode, the last from 6 June 2019:https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/X299%20OC%20Formul...
This does *not* apply in quite the same way for the GIGABYTE X170 ECC Extreme used for the 7th- and 6th-gen Intel CPUs... but only because it hasn't been updated *by Gigabyte* since the very first patches for Meltdown and Spectre at the start of 2018:
https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/GA-X170-EX...
MLSCrow - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
Some of those benchmark results with the i9-7920X are very fishy. In some cases, out-performing Intel CPU's with more advanced cores that have 2/3rd the cores, yet, it somehow manages to score 550% better? Please explain.madseven7 - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
Seems like Anandtech is becoming PCPerspective.GreenReaper - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
Well, it *is* an X-series. Perhaps it has a bit more cache? Or AVX-512 support with more modules? But I also see it's using a BIOS from March 2018 - not the latest from June 6 with microcode allowing MDS mitigations to be used by the OS (see my comment in the previous page).mattkiss - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
There are multiple errors in the "X570 Motherboards: PCIe 4.0 For Everybody" section. Check the second paragraph and "AMD X570, X470 and X370 Chipset Comparison" table that follows it.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
Could you please be more specific? I'm thumbing through the specs right now, and I'm not seeing an issue.Maxiking - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
So any plans to cover the huge fraud and misleading AMD marketing about frequency and the boost frequency? The majority of 3900x have such poor silicon quality they can't reach 4.6 GHz on a single core.