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: Shadow of War
Next up is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Developed by Monolith, whose last hit was arguably F.E.A.R., Shadow of Mordor returned them to the spotlight with an innovative NPC rival generation and interaction system called the Nemesis System, along with a storyline based on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, and making it work on a highly modified engine that originally powered F.E.A.R. in 2005.
Using the new LithTech Firebird engine, Shadow of War improves on the detail and complexity, and with free add-on high-resolution texture packs, offers itself as a good example of getting the most graphics out of an engine that may not be bleeding edge. Shadow of War also supports HDR (HDR10).
| AnandTech CPU Gaming 2019 Game List | ||||||||
| Game | Genre | Release | API | IGP | Low | Med | High | |
| Shadow of War | Action / RPG | Sep 2017 | DX11 | 720p Ultra | 1080p Ultra | 4K High | 8K High | |
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
| Shadow of War | IGP | Low | Medium | High |
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shakazulu667 - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Is there a compilation test coming for chromium or another big source tree, that would show if new IO arch brings wider benefits for such CPU+IO workloads?Andrei Frumusanu - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
We'll be re-adding the Chromium compile test in the next few days - there were a few technical hiccups when running it.shakazulu667 - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Thanks, I'm looking forward to it, especially curious if AMD can utilize NVMe better for this kind of workload.Andrei Frumusanu - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Unfortunately we don't test the CPU suite with different SSDs for this.shakazulu667 - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Is there another test in your suite that could show improvements with IO , incl NVMe?RSAUser - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
But one of the big features is PCIe 4 support, so testing with an nvme drive as well to show difference would be important? People spending $490 on a CPU only are probably going to be buying an Nvme SSD.A5 - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
There aren't any PCIe 4 SSDs for them to test with.0ldman79 - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
Yep, PCIe 4.0 NVME is going to be beta at this point at best.Last I read the first 4.0 NVME to be released is essentially running an overclocked 3.0 interface, which the list of NVME that can saturate 3.0 is pretty short as it is.
RSAUser - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
That's because these are the first PCIe 4 slots that exist, can't release a product that can't even be used.Using an overlocked drive in lieu of a 4 one is the proper thing to do.
Kevin G - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
For consumers yes but the first PCIe 4.0 host system was the IBM POWER9 released ~18 months ago. As such there are a handful of NIC and accelerators for servers out there today.The real oddity is that nVidia doesn’t support PCIe 4.0. Volta’s nvLink has a PHY based upon PCIe 4.0. Turing should as well though nVidia doesn’t par those chips with the previously mentioned POWER9.