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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 14, 2019 9:00 AM ESTGaming: Far Cry 5
The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration.
Far Cry 5 does support Vega-centric features with Rapid Packed Math and Shader Intrinsics. Far Cry 5 also supports HDR (HDR10, scRGB, and FreeSync 2). We use the in-game benchmark for our data, and report the average/minimum frame rates.
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.