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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: Far Cry 5
The fifth 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 with a lot of configurability.
Unfortunately, the game doesn’t like us changing the resolution in the results file when using certain monitors, resorting to 1080p but keeping the quality settings. But resolution scaling does work, so we decided to fix the resolution at 1080p and use a variety of different scaling factors to give the following:
- 720p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1440p Max.
Far Cry 5 outputs a results file here, but that the file is a HTML file, which showcases a graph of the FPS detected. At no point in the HTML file does it contain the frame times for each frame, but it does show the frames per second, as a value once per second in the graph. The graph in HTML form is a series of (x,y) co-ordinates scaled to the min/max of the graph, rather than the raw (second, FPS) data, and so using regex I carefully tease out the values of the graph, convert them into a (second, FPS) format, and take our values of averages and percentiles that way.
If anyone from Ubisoft wants to chat about building a benchmark platform that would not only help me but also every other member of the tech press build our benchmark testing platform to help our readers decide what is the best hardware to use on your games, please reach out to ian@anandtech.com. Some of the suggestions I want to give you will take less than half a day and it’s easily free advertising to use the benchmark over the next couple of years (or more).
As with the other gaming tests, we run each resolution/setting combination for a minimum of 10 minutes and take the relevant frame data for averages and percentiles.
AnandTech | Low Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Low Quality |
High Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Max Quality |
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
upsss:https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vnF56By3SL2xWGrc...
Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Shame they didn't have the 5800X and 5600X in there, would be interesting to see how they line up too. Strong progress indeed from AMD!5j3rul3 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The BEST moment of AMD👍👍👍Tunnah - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The eventual 5700X is going to be an absolute sales smasher I reckon.Smell This - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Is the Zen2 end-of-life?The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X $300 could sure put a really big squeeze on the i7-10700K
haukionkannel - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Most likely Zen2 is at the end of the line. Amd will produce Zen3 at TSMC 7nm and zen+ at Globalfounduries 12 or 14nm...FireSnake - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Gold reward.Haven't seen this here for quite a while.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
We haven't had a CPU worthy of one in quite a while. It's nice to be able to hand out awards like these.=)just4U - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
What's amazing about that Ryan is it's a AMD processor. It seemed like you guys really wanted to give the gold award last time around with the 3000 series... but then opted for the silver award, which wasn't to shabby as it's something that has become very uncommon even if it's a good review of a product that your impressed with. Great review by Ian, good job guys.Byte - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
Save your next gold for the radeon 6900!