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: Strange Brigade (DX12, Vulkan)
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark which offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. AMD has boasted previously that Strange Brigade is part of its Vulkan API implementation offering scalability for AMD multi-graphics card configurations.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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bigboxes - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
derpAlexvrb - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
As the review points out, it's also hard to measure burst frequency. The harder you try, the more you skew the result, too. The CPU could very well be hitting 4.7 briefly in variable workloads on the hot core... although maybe other samples hit it more often or for slightly longer periods of time.III-V - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
For real. It's the performance that matters, not some number with zero real world meaning.Marlin1975 - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Wow thats a lot of CPU for not much when you compare it against the competition and how much others cost.I am surprised the dual channel memory does not hold it back more.
Foeketijn - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
That's exactly what I was thinking. An incredable feat to score about double compaired with a 3700x, with twice the cores, twice the power envelope but the same memory bandwidth. What are those embedded Epyc chips (3000 series) doing with quad channel DDR4?brantron - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Zen 1 and Broadwell have higher memory bandwidth than Skylake-X at low thread counts.Broadwell D is still updated almost annually High memory bandwidth at low power is apparently somebody's thing.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake...
Silma - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Based on you geomean chart, it looks like on 7nm, Intel chips would destroy AMD's, and there's a real possibility Intel's 10 nm chips will be competitive in price & superior in performance if Intel prices them to compete.Silma - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Anyway, congrats to AMD and thanks for heating the competition again.naxeem - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Intel can't really do much. They have nothing in the pipeline.Teckk - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Destroy is probably too strong? AMD will be on TSMCs 5 nm plus their new designs so they'll mostly be on par or in the same situation as today.