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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eva02langley - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Yeah, because the average Joe is owning a 2080 TI to play at 1080p...blppt - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Believe it or not, you need a 2080Ti to play 1080p at max settings smoothly in RDR2 at the moment.My oc'd 1080ti (FTW3) chokes on that game at 1080p/max settings.
itproflorida - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Not.. 1440p 78 fps avg for RDR2 Benchmark and in game 72 fps avg maxed settings @ 1440p, 2080ti and 9700k@5Ghz.blppt - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
The 2080ti and other 2xxx series cards do MUCH better in RDR2 than their equivalent 10-series cards. Look at the benchmarks---we have Vega 64s challenging 1080tis in this game. That should not happen.https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/red_dead_red...
Ian Cutress - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
I have 2080 Ti units standing by, but my current benchmark run is with 1080s until I do a full benchmark reset. Probably Q1 next year, when I'm back at home for longer than 5 days. Supercomputing, Tech Summit, IEDM, and CES are in my next few weeks.Dusk_Star - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
> In our Ryzen 7 3700X review, with the 12-core processorPretty sure the 3700X is 8 cores.
Lux88 - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Not a single compilation benchmark...Ian Cutress - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Having issues getting the benchmark to work on Win 10 1909, didn't have time to debug. Hoping to fix it for the next benchmark suite update.Lux88 - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Thanks!stux - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Sad,Desperately want to know if the 3950x will make a good developer workstation. 64GB of Ram and a fast nvme, or is it going to be memory bandwidth bottlenecked... and I’ll need to step up to TR3.