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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: World of Tanks
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for its new graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine has been implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine runs optimally on their system. There is technically a Ray Tracing version of the enCore benchmark now available, however because it can’t be deployed standalone without the installer, we decided against using it. If that gets fixed, then we can look into it.
The benchmark tool comes with a number of presets:
- 768p Minimum, 1080p Standard, 1080p Max, 4K Max (not a preset)
The odd one out is the 4K Max preset, because the benchmark doesn’t automatically have a 4K option – to get this we edit the acceptable resolutions ini file, and then we can select 4K. The benchmark outputs its own results file, with frame times, making it very easy to parse the data needed for average and percentiles.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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madymadme - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Going to buyAMD Ryzen 9 5900X,
Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC,
Noctua NH-D15 Dual 140m Fans,
G.skill Trident Z RGB Series 16GB (2x8GB) 4000 MHz DDR4 Memory F4-4000C18D-16GTZRB
is corsair CV550 watt ok with the above spec ? & I have Quadro K2000D graphic card
is this specification ok ? & which ram to get please help a little & thanks for reading & replying
Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
All I can say is your PSU should be more than enough for that setup :)Vik32 - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
AMD is now the leader in single threaded performance!When will the iphone 12 review ?
Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Loving the substantial review detail, as always! Quite the triumph for AMD 😁Only one minor criticism - the sum-up of the gaming results buries the lede a little, which is to say that the performance is excellent across AMD's new range, meaning that the 5600X frequently outperforms some of Intel's best processors. I will be *very* interested to see if overclocking makes any difference there - with some relaxed power limits and the potential for higher clocks, it could be THE gaming chip to buy.
That's a small gripe, though. Just pleased to see a result this unequivocal. Between this and the US election result, it'll be tears before bedtime for several of the trolls on this site 🤭
Solidstate20 - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Zen question: If a CPU has awesome performance but is out-of-stock in every shop, does it really have awesome performance?Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
lolAgent Smith - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Where are the new x590 motherboards to support the 5000 series CPU's?The B550 boards are good value but are PCIe 4.0 limited and rely on shared ports.
The older x570 boards are good but are several years old now so lacking newer features like 2.5Gb LAN and front facing USB-C ports for mini & micro ITX.
Qasar - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
i dont think there will be unless the mobo makers release them on their own."The older x570 boards are good but are several years old now " huh ? try barely 1.5 years old. x570 was released in July 2019, how is that several years ? the strix e gaming board i have has 2.5g lan, as long as the board has the usb 3 header, wouldnt front facing usbc be more of a case feature then the board ?
Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
I think the USB-C front ports have a different connector at the motherboard end. I still don't get why this is a big deal, though.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - link
It really isnt. I dont know anyone who actually uses front USB C right now, usually they plug into the back because the back port will be 10gb/20gb/thunderbolt, but the front is only 5gb