The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: AMD's Fastest Gaming Processor
by Gavin Bonshor on February 27, 2023 9:00 AM ESTGaming Performance: 720p And Lower
The reason we test games in CPU reviews at lower resolutions such as 720p and below is simple; titles are more likely to be CPU bound than they are GPU bound at lower resolutions. This means there are more frames for the processor to process as opposed to the graphics card doing the majority of the heavy lifting.
There are some variances where some games will still use graphical power, but not as much CPU grunt at these smaller resolutions, and this is where we can show where CPU limitations lie in terms of gaming.
We are using DDR5 memory on the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and the other Ryzen 7000 series we've tested. This also includes Intel's 13th and 12th Gen processors. We tested the aforementioned platforms with the following settings:
- DDR5-5600B CL46 - Intel 13th Gen
- DDR5-5200 CL44 - Ryzen 7000
- DDR5-4800 (B) CL40 - Intel 12th Gen
All other CPUs such as Ryzen 5000 and 3000 were tested at the relevant JEDEC settings as per the processor's individual memory support with DDR4.
Civilization VI
World of Tanks
Borderlands 3
Grand Theft Auto V
Red Dead Redemption 2
F1 2022
Hitman 3
Total War: Warhammer 3
At lower resolutions, much of the slack and grunt work is done by the cores, and as we can see, the Ryzen 9 7950X does shine through here a little more in some titles with faster cores and more power available to them to deliver better low-resolution gaming performance.
The Ryzen 9 7950X3D does still do well, and where V-Cache can be helpful, titles such as Borderlands 3, Hitman, and F1 2022 do leverage the additional L3 cache to their advantage.
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achinhorn - Monday, March 6, 2023 - link
This feels like there are gapping holes left to be examined, specifically with the scheduler/drivers and Windows 11.If you do these tests using manual BIOS settings, what changes?
This article is not helping me make a buying decision when I have this article only to compare current CPU offerings and there appear to be issues with the CPU software.
soltys - Monday, March 6, 2023 - link
I'm still wondering how well would this cpu perform having heavy load of both a game and non-game running at the same time - most typical of the latter being e.g. OBS using x264 at medium or slow presets.Would the threads be assigned correctly ? Or would that be a mess as both CCDs would be unparked.