Gaming Benchmarks

Having seen such impressive productivity functioning, I had loftier hopes for Ryzen when information technology came to gaming. Delight note that the gaming graphs are arranged by minimum frame rate and the Titan XP was used for testing at 1080p to reduce the GPU bottleneck. With slower GPUs or more demanding quality settings the results will even upwards and CPUs that lag behind in these tests will expect more competitive.

Anyway, Ryzen trails Skylake and Kaby Lake when it comes to gaming performance, but the margin isn't pregnant, at least in Battlefield i. Despite the 1800X's smashing minimum fps operation, it's hard to not notice its lower than expected average frame rate, which is on par with the Ivy Bridge 3770K.

Not a bad issue by any means, and its worlds ameliorate than the former FX-8370. Still we are seeing that when Ryzen 7 isn't fully utilized its slightly weaker IPC functioning can be seen.

The 1700X, meanwhile, matched the minimum frame charge per unit of the 5960X, though the boilerplate was similar to the Sandy Bridge 2600K.

In Gears of War four, the 1800X struggled to keep footstep with the Ivy Bridge 3770K while the 1700X was again similar to the 2600K, though at least the minimum frame rates remained strong. This seems similar an early on indication that gamers with a high refresh rate monitor will want to stick with the Core i7 range.

The Overwatch eight-player bot test is very demanding and in the past we have seen the Core i5 processors struggled to keep upwardly with the Hyper-Threading enabled Core i7s. Ryzen fits in the middle of those two when looking at minimum frame rates while the average frame rates weren't likewise impressive again.

The Ryzen processors clearly aren't allowing the Titan XP to hit the aforementioned highs, though their performance is a massive pace forward from the FX-8370 and their minimums are better than those of the Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge Cadre i7 processors.

The concluding game I had fourth dimension to test was Watch Dogs 2, in which the CPU utilization hovered between 70 and 80% utilization on the Ryzen processors with an fifty-fifty load across all sixteen threads.

Despite that, they didn't top Intel's eight-threaded Core i7 processors like the 5960X. In fact, Ryzen was a skilful bit slower here, at least compared to the 6800K, 6700K and 7700K. That said, Ryzen did manage to outperform the Haswell and Ivy Bridge Cadre i7s as well as all of the Core i5 processors.

So over again, not exactly bad results, only I had honestly expected to run into better performance in a game that can spread a heavy load across xvi-threads.