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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 |
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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brunis.dk - Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - link
It's nothing compared to the price premiums Intel used to charge for their performance leadership.Diggodo - Monday, January 11, 2021 - link
You might want to rethink what you've just claimed.. and I'm very confused why you would think 5950x is worth it unless you absolutely need the extra cores for work. Its $750 MSRP compared to $550 🤦♂️. I'm curious why you say otherwise because every Intel 10th gen-11th gen chip have been duds really.The 5900x is a steal for it's price and is a killer chip. The price hike means nothing because the 3900x was 499 when it came out.
Santoval - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
Not just in price/performance this time, in performance period.leexgx - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Rip anandtech server been overloaded (to many views I and to reload like 8 times just to get to this page about to try and use the print to show all pages good luck to me trying that so I can read everything )NickOne - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Yeah, probably Intel serverDrkrieger01 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Just my $0.02 as a sysadmin, it's likely a limited bandwidth issue, not server access/drive IOPS.lmcd - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Probably all the other website editors looking for the best one-line quote to includeOrkiton - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Intel will buy TSMC and Rip out Amd :))Hifihedgehog - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Wishful thinking. That's like a Bulldog trying to eat a Great Dane.fazalmajid - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Er, TSMC’s market cap is double Intel’s.