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: 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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Ian Cutress - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
I moved it to $979 because that's the price of the upcoming 10980XE, which hasn't been released but has some extra frequency, so it should score 'at least' there.platinumjsi - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
The Geekbench multicore results look very low for the 9980XE, Hot Hardware and OC3D's reviews of that chip put it at around 43k and the Geekbench browser puts non overclockable workstations at around 55k.Was multicore enhancement off for Intel and PBO on for AMD?
blppt - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
If I had to guess, it looks like maybe they have turbo completely disabled on both the 9980XE and the 7980XE, meaning in the case of the 7980XE, it will never clock higher than 2.6ghz. Or maybe they included scores for the 32-bit test for those two by mistake?See my post below---I regularly get 52-53K in that benchmark, no overclocking and no high clock ram.
blppt - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Something is really wrong with your 7980XE setup---getting 30K in Geekbench 4???Granted I have the multi-core enhancement enabled in the BIOS, but I get 52-53K consistently, no overclocking. Using standard 2600 DDR4.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14797740
Count Rushmore - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Hmm... seem like for rendering machine, Threadripper is the way to go. I thought I could build 'cheap' rendering machines with 3950... but that 2 memory channels seem inadequate. Looking fwd to 25th!Oliseo - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
I would say the dual memory channel makes it a "prosumer" choice rather than a professional.Amazing value though for someone just starting out their career. That level of performance at home without breaking the bank.
Not bad at all.
Count Rushmore - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
No doubt about the value... Would love to see more people getting into 3D renderingicoreaudience - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
When is anandtech going to use a modern compressor like Zstandard for the encoding test ?It's a great fit for multi-threading tests !
itproflorida - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Great so the 9700k is still the price, performance gaming king.eek2121 - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Ian, upgrade 1080. Your gaming benchmarks are very clearly GPU bound at this point.