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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RSAUser - Thursday, July 11, 2019 - link
Well, tests of the new AMD card show near no difference for PCIe 4, so no point yet.0ldman79 - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
I'm not done yet, but you guys have done an excellent job so far.The only differences I can spot are just in how both of you phrase things, quality is excellent as always.
JustinTeim - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Andrei, What is the status of ECC support for these CPUs ?Yorgos - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
He is not even a Dr., to start with.Ian Cutress - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
DPhil awarded from Oxford in Computation Chemistry in 2011. (Oxford call it a DPhil, but it is the old term for a Ph.D.)mikato - Thursday, July 11, 2019 - link
I read that as Dr Phil at first. So to be clear, you do not have a Dr Phil degree. I’m not sure what that would be, but I know it would be terrible.XsjadoKoncept - Sunday, July 21, 2019 - link
You'd probably have to be friends with Oprah. Yeck.WaltC - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Hope all is well for the good Dr. Cutress!Oxford Guy - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link
Yes, like all the results that include the performance regressions on Intel from actually dealing with reality.Reality is that they exist and need to be patched, not ignored.
That includes turning off hyperthreading.
cheshirster - Monday, July 8, 2019 - link
"Dr Ian Cutress as he unfortunately the timing didn’t work out"I bet he just don't want to risk his reputation.