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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the gooder-faster-cheaper dept.

Some Soylentils were disappointed by the gaming performance of AMD's Ryzen CPUs when they were launched last month. By now, updates have eliminated some of the advantage that Intel CPUs had, but the potential gains differ depending on the game:

The first big Ryzen patch was for Ashes of the Singularity. Ryzen's performance in Ashes was arguably one of the more surprising findings in the initial benchmarking. The game has been widely used as a kind of showcase for the advantages of DirectX 12 and the multithreaded scaling that it shows. We spoke to the game's developers, and they told us that its engine splits up the work it has to do between multiple cores automatically.

In general, the Ryzen 1800X performed at about the same level as Intel's Broadwell-E 6900K. Both parts are 8-core, 16-thread chips, and while Broadwell-E has a modest instructions-per-cycle advantage in most workloads, Ryzen's higher clock speed is enough to make up for that deficit. But in Ashes of the Singularity under DirectX 12, the 6900K had average frame rates about 25 percent better than the AMD chip.

In late March, Oxide/Stardock released a Ryzen performance update for Ashes, and it has gone a long way toward closing that gap. PC Perspective tested the update, and depending on graphics settings and memory clock speeds, Ryzen's average frame rate went up by between 17 and 31 percent. The 1800X still trails the 6900K, but now the gap is about 9 percent, or even less with overclocked memory (but we'll talk more about memory later on).


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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday April 11 2017, @09:50PM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @09:50PM (#492476) Journal

    Though normally the best advice is to go for an R5 and spend the extra 200$ on the GPU. I think that's bad advice right now because AMD doesn't sell a high-end GPU

    Yeah, I went with the "get the R7 now and upgrade GPU later" logic. I don't regret getting the R7 instead of waiting for the R5, though I do kind of regret that I'm still dealing with the nvidia card I had. It's being really fucking weird with this system, works fine from a cold boot but won't send a signal to the displays after a soft reset. It's also not the first problem I've had with with the card, which has always done strange things if all four inputs (2x DVI, HDMI, DP) are used simultaneously, even before the new hardware.

    I've had enough problems with nvidia lately that I'm most likely going to bite the bullet and go AMD for my next GPU. I was already getting annoyed at certain things nvidia has done, like taking out linux driver features because Windows doesn't have them, and crippling certain OpenGL calls at the driver level depending on what GPU it detects, but the strong Linux support made it hard to justify a switch. So, I kept using nvidia GPUs while hoping AMD's linux support would improve, but after this last card I think I'd rather deal with driver issues. At least drivers can be updated.

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