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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rocky12345 - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
Great review thanks. I do have to nit pick though. You seem to be scolding AMD for the Zen 2 CPU's slightly going over the stated power limits. I found this a bit odd because of you look at Intel CPU's and how they sated their power limits. You will hardly ever see them coming even remotely close to the stated power limit because their CPU's under full load are pulling much more power than stated by Intel.Example the 9900K/9900KS have been seen pulling almost double the power as stated by Intel under stock conditions. Yes I understand AMD & Intel list their TDP power limits differently and on the Intel side those numbers mean very little unless you lock them at their base clocks without ever letting them go into turbo boost mode.
kc77 - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
I noticed that as well. I'm noticing less and less TDP comparisons.ajlueke - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
" the motherboard choice (as well as the cooling it uses) will matter."AMD has really been pushing the idea that VRMs and cooling will affect Ryzen 3000 series performance (likely to sell X570 motherboards), but I haven't come across any actual supporting data.
In my experience, the Ryzen 3000 series winds up voltage bound by FIT, well below excessive temperature or PPT, TDC, EDC bounds. Such that any additional headroom, like from a custom loop or better VRMs accomplishes nothing.
Now, the statement I quoted above is pretty definitive that it does matter. So I imagine, there is data supporting it. Care to share?
rickderick7 - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
I bought AMD Ryzen 9 3950X last week, and set it up on my CPU , but since then my printer stopped working. Is that something related to this device? I even tried setting up the printer again with the below steps in the link, but still no luck. I need my printer working as before.Could someone advice on this?
Thanks
Rick
rickderick7 - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
I bought AMD Ryzen 9 3950X last week, and set it up on my CPU , but since then my printer stopped working. Is that something related to this device? I even tried setting up the printer again with the below steps in the link, but still no luck. I need my printer working as before.https://123hp-com-setup.us/123hp-oj5255-wireless-s...
Could someone advice on this?
Thanks
Rick
Drazick - Saturday, November 16, 2019 - link
It has nothing to do with the CPU be it Intel or AMD.Supercell99 - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
All these comments and I haven't read one useful one yet.Rudde - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
It appears that AMD's PPT power limit is 35% higher than their TDP.Drazick - Saturday, November 16, 2019 - link
It is about time we move to Quad (4) Memory Channels in consumer computers.csell - Saturday, November 16, 2019 - link
Or DDR5 RAM. I expect the DDR5 RAMs to arrive first.