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: 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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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.