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: 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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Qasar - Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - link
no, but fake posts are.feka1ity - Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - link
sure, everything faster than new amede is fake for fanboizIketh - Monday, November 16, 2020 - link
was there a performance/watt metric anywhere in this article? how many memory controllers on each chip?peevee - Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - link
As MT vs ST tests clearly show, there is not enough power and/or memory bandwidth on AM4 for 16 cores anymore.Hoping for a 4-channel DDR5 mass-market platform next.
One 8-core chiplet, one graphics chiplet (similar to 5600 XT, and working together with an additional AMD graphics card), 4 channels of DDR5 to support that, preferably as SODIMM slots right on the CPU package for smallest latency and power consumption possible (and making a cheap MB possible)... I can dream, can I? It should have been this generation, I would have ordered it already.
RobJoy - Thursday, November 19, 2020 - link
Same or better performance than Intel for the same price, with PCIe 4.0 for uber fast drives?Where do I sign?
Bring it on.
ssshenoy - Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - link
How do you conclude that this product line is superior to Tiger Lake when there are no measurements that compare these two? All the Intel to AMD comparisons are the old Skylake core on 14 nm vs. the latest Zen 3 core on 7 nm. Am I missing something here?JSyrup - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
Is there a reason why the 5800X outperforms both the 5900X and 5950X in some games? Could it have something to do with 1 CCX vs 2 CCXs?JSyrup - Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - link
*CCDsI got it now. For the best of both worlds, go for the 5950X. Then, if you play games, disable 1 CCD in BIOS or leave both CCDs enabled if you do productivity. This is how to maximise performance and prevent unexpected performance drops.
Sgtkeebler - Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - link
On RDR why do higher resolutions get higher FPS than 1080p?