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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High Resolution Low Quality |
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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just4U - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
There were some issues early on as the review came out (obviously got hammered..) good now tho..MDD1963 - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
The pages were indeed VERY slow to load the hour or two after they were posted....; overloaded, perhaps.NA1NSXR - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
What are you talking about, have you seen the prices? We got a big leap but we also got a value-destroying price hike. 5800X is in line with 10900K throughout the suite, but is newer and no cheaper!catavalon21 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Agree. The 10850 hands the 5800x it's backside in a great many contests, at about the same price point, yeah.just4U - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
It's just launch prices (..shrug) I'd pay the premium for the 5900x and the 5950x but the 3800? Hmm no.. I'd either opt in for the 3900x or a Intel 10core part first at that price. Needs to be priced $10 cheaper than the 10900 (non K) which brings it closer to the 8core 10700K price.just4U - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
err (should read 5800x) not 3800.yankeeDDL - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
The 10850 peaks at 140W *more* than the 5800x. It's, literally, half as efficient as the 5800x. Running the 10850 will on a daily basis will cost you easily much more than the CPU's cost itself over its lifetime.LithiumFirefly - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Especially if you live in a climate that's warm part of the year paying more for AC cuz that Intel chip is hot AFdagobah123 - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
This is so much more important than people realize. I think they should include a cost of ownership when discussing these prices like they do with cars.lmcd - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
it wasn't important when AMD was behind so why is it important now?