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: 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.
| AnandTech CPU Gaming 2019 Game List | ||||||||
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| Strange Brigade* | FPS | Aug 2018 |
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| *Strange Brigade is run in DX12 and Vulkan modes | ||||||||
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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djayjp - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
So results for Intel chips are completely invalid then.futrtrubl - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
You will need to have to explain that then. Comparing Intel with mitigations vs AMD with mitigations.djayjp - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
No. Fallout/ZombieLoad does not affect AMD chips.djayjp - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Intel performance will suffer whereas AMD's won't be affected.WaltC - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Ha-ha...;) So because AMD has a newer architecture without most of the vulnerabilities that plague Intel's ancient CPU architectures--it should be held against AMD? Rubbish...;) Look, what is unfair about testing both architectures/cpus with all the mitigations that each *requires*? I can't see a thing wrong with it--it's perfect, in fact.extide - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
They tested Intel WITHOUT Fallout/ZombieLoad which would affect them. Probably not by much, though, honestly.RSAUser - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
Well the results are close enough for a lot of tests to be error margin, that the mitigation would put AMD in the lead.The tests should reflect real world as of when the article is published, using old results without declaring that Intel doesn't have mitigation applied on every page is the equivalent of falsifying the results as people will buy based on these tests.
mkaibear - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
"using old results without declaring that Intel doesn't have mitigation applied on every page is the equivalent of falsifying the results as people will buy based on these tests."Oh, that's just inane. They quite openly state the exact test specification on the "Test Bed and Setup" page, including which mitigations are applied. Arguing that not putting one particular piece of information on every page means it's the equivalent of falsifying the results is completely ridiculous.
RSAUser - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
How many go through the test bed set up page?Meteor2 - Sunday, July 14, 2019 - link
Pretty much everyone reading such an in-depth review, I should think.