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: 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.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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rret - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
we have nearly 400 million dollars - you give us gold award and then we release the money to you. my lawyer will call you...either that or my attorney general. stay close to phone!Kishoreshack - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
That's a good thingI hope we scrap out gold awards in all together
Only recommended is what matters
soo we know all Anandtech recommendations carry same weight
Hope to see you implement this
Oliseo - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
No brown envelope at the usual deadrop.Irata - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Just curious: Were the Intel systems fully patched, including the new JCC Microcode update ?ydeer - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Excellent question.Ian Cutress - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Did I run 30hr+ of tests on each of those Intel processors with a patch from an announcement 24 hours prior? No, of course not.Irata - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
I did not expect this to be honest. Must not be fun testing with the different security related updates from Intel or Bios patches from AMD that come out regularly.Might be worth adding a mention to the review since the JCC and Zombieload 2 updates can have a performance impact (as per Phoronix).
Irata - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Oh, and not to be rude - thank you very much for this through review Ian.Flying Aardvark - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
Can you at notate that in the review in large bold print, and that it's likely to affect performance, possibly dramatically for the Intel CPUs?lukx - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
what where the temperatures? can you use air cooling?