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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: Chernobylite
Despite the advent of recent TV shows like Chernobyl, recreating the situation revolving around the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the concept of nuclear fallout and the town of Pripyat have been popular settings for a number of games – mostly first person shooters. Chernobylite is an indie title that plays on a science-fiction survival horror experience and uses a 3D-scanned recreation of the real Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It involves challenging combat, a mix of free exploration with crafting and non-linear story telling. While still in early access, it is already picking up plenty of awards.
I picked up Chernobylite while still in early access, and was impressed by its in-game benchmark, showcasing complex building structure with plenty of trees and structures where aliasing becomes important. The in-game benchmark is an on-rails experience through the scenery, covering both indoor and outdoor scenes – it ends up being very CPU limited in the way it is designed. We have taken an offline version of Chernobylite to use in our tests, and we are testing the following settings combinations:
- 360p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1080p Max
We do as many runs within 10 minutes per resolution/setting combination, and then take averages.
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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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Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
No, that's meyeeeeman - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Ian, you need to buy some new servers for anandtech.com now that AMD has launched zen 3.The site is barely loading.
DigitalFreak - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I wonder if they're still running on the last hardware upgrade Anand did.Ryan Smith - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Nah, we're a couple of generations past that now.Phiro69 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
As far as I can tell, it's cloudfront having problems, not Anandtech's backend. I would be surprised if they aren't 100% cloud based at this point, too.gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
This is what I expected from AMD, 10 years but it came !!gagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Athlon 64 X2 2005 = 15 añosTomatotech - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
15 anuses? Surely it’s not *that* bad ;)ahenriquedsj - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
In competitive games it is a massacre.Double Trouble - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
What AMD has been able to achieve over the past few years is definitely impressive, and this 5000 series CPU set is excellent. However, I do wonder if climbing up the price / segment chart is going to take a toll. For me, I've upgraded 5 PC's from older CPU's to Ryzen 5 3600 and 3600X because the price was very reasonable (about $170). With a minimum of $300 for the new 5600X, that's almost double the price, so I won't be buying any for a long time. The 5000 series is impressive, but not worth that kind of a steep price. I wonder if a lot of other buyers might be in the same boat.