AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
by Dr. Ian Cutress on May 18, 2020 9:00 AM ESTGaming: Final Fantasy XV
Upon arriving to PC earlier this, Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was given a graphical overhaul as it was ported over from console, fruits of their successful partnership with NVIDIA, with hardly any hint of the troubles during Final Fantasy XV's original production and development.
In preparation for the launch, Square Enix opted to release a standalone benchmark that they have since updated. Using the Final Fantasy XV standalone benchmark gives us a lengthy standardized sequence to record, although it should be noted that its heavy use of NVIDIA technology means that the Maximum setting has problems - it renders items off screen. To get around this, we use the standard preset which does not have these issues.
Square Enix has patched the benchmark with custom graphics settings and bugfixes to be much more accurate in profiling in-game performance and graphical options. For our testing, we run the standard benchmark with a FRAPs overlay, taking a 6 minute recording of the test.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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flyingpants265 - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
Haha, I knew somebody would would be slow enough to say that.Spunjji - Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - link
Why are so many people who make terrible points under the impression that it's their critics who are slow?dromoxen - Thursday, May 28, 2020 - link
perhaps the slow one is the Flying trousers .. You have already paid out 100 so to upgrade you would need to spend an extra 290 cadshabby - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
I paid 10k for a used corvette, who in their right mind would pay 60k for a new one...flyingpants265 - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
I guess nobody, if the only advantage is a 15% performance increase. Thanks for proving my point!Spunjji - Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - link
😴lmcd - Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - link
Someone had to buy the original for there to be a used oneIf no one buys the original, there will be no used ones for you to buy
dudedud - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
Why does the ryzen 3 3300X scores so high in DigiCortex even with half the cores of the 3700X?Or is a typo?
GreenReaper - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
Probably because the interaction between the cores matters, and the 3700X has cores on two separate complexes.silverblue - Monday, May 18, 2020 - link
I got a 3600 recently, and it works fine on my Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3, a B350 board from mid-2017. It does occasionally peak up to about 4.15GHz as far as I can tell from Ryzen Master, which is in no doubt helped by reusing my 1600's v1 Spire, along with MX-4 paste, in place of the packaged Stealth. Folding can still push temperatures up pretty high, especially if handling CPU and GPU work orders at the same time; partly thanks to having a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 590, CPU temperatures were spiking to the low 90s Celsius, but a combination of two new Corsair ML120 case fans (twice as effective as the Aerocool intake fan/ancient Akasa exhaust fan combo I had before) plus some slightly tweaked fan profiles knocked this down nearly ten degrees, along with boosting CPU folding speed a little. It's a great CPU, though I wish I had more than an RX 590 to go along with it.