The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: 16 Cores on 7nm with PCIe 4.0
by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 14, 2019 9:00 AM ESTGaming: F1 2018
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
We use the in-game benchmark, set to run on the Montreal track in the wet, driving as Lewis Hamilton from last place on the grid. Data is taken over a one-lap race.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Holliday75 - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
I'm right there with you. I've made a good chunk of change in AMD stock the last 5-6 years, but not as much as I should have. Played it way to conservative. Hindsight sucks.imaheadcase - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Buying stock based on a CPU is the worst thing you could of did. I hear that a lot, its almost as if people think Intel and AMD just make CPUs as only business.Spunjji - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
It's a much larger part of AMD's business than Intel's, and it marks the difference between them being profitable and not profitable - so while you're theoretically sort-of right, in practice, not so much.itproflorida - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Not here to defend Intel but a 9700K OC'd to 5Ghz will give a 9900KS a run for its money in gaming, its still outscores the 9900K, KS in a many games and likewise the 3900 and 3950.Notmyusualid - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
Turning off Hyper-Threading, and soaking up the extra cache nicely takes care of that...UglyFrank - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
It makes me wonder where Intel could be if they weren't on their 5th year of 14nm or their 4th year of 'skylake'.Well done to AMD, maybe I'll buy a big Navi GPU next year if they can get that right too, although I have more faith in Nvidia than I have in Intel.
Targon - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Intel made the mistake of linking the architecture to the fab process. If Intel didn't do that, then would we have seen actual architecture improvements from Intel on the 14nm process? AMD has been in the position where Zen to Zen+ to Zen2 could theoretically have been done on any process node, though power draw, clock speeds, and size would have been different and potentially an issue.Kishoreshack - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
CuriousWhy it didn't get gold award from Anandtech
ian Cutress any explanation?
lukx - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
New Threadripper will get gold :)Ian Cutress - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
I only give out recommended or nothing. I'm not a fan of platinum/gold/silver awards. Recommended is the highest award from me.