AMD Zen 3 Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 5950X, 5900X, 5800X and 5600X Tested
by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: Red Dead Redemption 2
It’s great to have another Rockstar benchmark in the mix, and the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) on the PC gives us a chance to do that. Building on the success of the original RDR, the second incarnation came to Steam in December 2019 having been released on consoles first. The PC version takes the open-world cowboy genre into the start of the modern age, with a wide array of impressive graphics and features that are eerily close to reality.
For RDR2, Rockstar kept the same benchmark philosophy as with Grand Theft Auto V, with the benchmark consisting of several cut scenes with different weather and lighting effects, with a final scene focusing on an on-rails environment, only this time with mugging a shop leading to a shootout on horseback before riding over a bridge into the great unknown. Luckily most of the command line options from GTA V are present here, and the game also supports resolution scaling. We have the following tests:
- 384p Minimum, 1440p Minimum, 8K Minimum, 1080p Max
For that 8K setting, I originally thought I had the settings file at 4K and 1.0x scaling, but it was actually set at 2.0x giving that 8K. For the sake of it, I decided to keep the 8K settings.
For our results, we run through each resolution and setting configuration for a minimum of 10 minutes, before averaging and parsing the frame time data.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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ExarKun333 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
And 'Hammer' 4-5 years before then, to credit AMD then as well. It has been a long time since we had something this exctiing.lmcd - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
IMO Sandy Bridge was this exciting. The IPC on that release was absolutely insane compared to Nehalem.ingwe - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Agreed. That definitely seemed like the last big excitement though. Can't wait to upgrade!Slash3 - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
Yep. My case was a bit different, but I went from a launch date 2600K which had been running at 5GHz to a 3950X last November. It was a pretty solid single core upgrade (although not as dramatic as you'd think since the 2600K was so topped out - CPU-Z SC score went from 478 to 545) but the multi core performance obviously blew it entirely out of the water.AMD's 5950X, though? Single core CPU-Z score is ~680. Six eighty! Stock!
The jump in single core performance between the 5950X and the 3950X is almost -double- what it was in going from my 2600K to the 3950X. That's absolutely monstrous.
Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Fair point there, Slash. This may indeed be the best thing since Sandy, and damn was I excited when that released!citan x - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Micro center had some in stock at the store even though there was a huge line to enter when I got there 5 minutes before opening. However, they only had 5600x and 5800x in stock. I wanted a 5950x and they said they never got those in stock. I have not found any 5950x in stock anywhere.charlesg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Yeah I'm wondering if the 5950x is actually available yet? Or if some bots had insider info on pages to buy them the instant they were available...Holliday75 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I am seeing them listed on eBay starting a little over $1,000 and going up to $2,000.nandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The listings say "Locate in Store - Unavailable Online", with a small amount of 5800X and 5600X available at my store. So no bots, you have to show up in person. It also says "Limit 1 per household" although I imagine you could get a couple of friends with different credit cards and get 1 of each model per person.nandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I can't tell you when it will be back in stock, but that's not unusual for day 1.