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: Borderlands 3
As a big Borderlands fan, having to sit and wait six months for the EPIC Store exclusive to expire before we saw it on Steam felt like a long time to wait. The fourth title of the franchise, if you exclude the TellTale style-games, BL3 expands the universe beyond Pandora and its orbit, with the set of heroes (plus those from previous games) now cruising the galaxy looking for vaults and the treasures within. Popular Characters like Tiny Tina, Claptrap, Lilith, Dr. Zed, Zer0, Tannis, and others all make appearances as the game continues its cel-shaded design but with the graphical fidelity turned up. Borderlands 1 gave me my first ever taste of proper in-game second order PhysX, and it’s a high standard that continues to this day.
BL3 works best with online access, so it is filed under our online games section. BL3 is also one of our biggest downloads, requiring 100+ GB. As BL3 supports resolution scaling, we are using the following settings:
- 360p Very Low, 1440p Very Low, 4K Very Low, 1080p Badass
BL3 has its own in-game benchmark, which recreates a set of on-rails scenes with a variety of activity going on in each, such as shootouts, explosions, and wildlife. The benchmark outputs its own results files, including frame times, which can be parsed for our averages/percentile data.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Andrew LB - Sunday, December 13, 2020 - link
5800x @ 3.6-4.7ghz draws 219w and hits 82'c and locked at 4.7ghz its 231w and 88'c.Thats hotter than my i7-10700k @ 5.1ghz all core locked.
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Thunder 57 - Monday, April 26, 2021 - link
This comment didn't age well...AndyMclamb - Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - link
Rip AMD oner year later Intel destroys AMD with Alder Lakejeremyshaw - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Yes! All I wanted to see was on the Cache and Latency parts - the unified cache allows 6 core and 12 core setups without the penalties of having partial CCXs!JfromImaginstuff - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Wow, just wow,Intel, hang in there you'll get there eventually
PandaBear - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
In 2023 maybe.Spunjji - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
It could be as soon as 2022 that they become properly competitive on power and performance, depending on how TSMC 5nm and Zen 4 shake out for AMD.Rocket Lake ought to at least given them presence in mid-range gaming, if you can stomach the power...
5j3rul3 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
No Microsoft Filght Simulator 2020 Test?5j3rul3 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
MFS 2020 is the great to test CPU performance in gamegagegfg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
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