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tamz_msc

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When Intel was in the lead in gaming, thats all we ever heard of from that group. Now that they are NOT in the lead its "well, you can OC them, and they might be even" or "well the Intel 10xxx is cheaper".

Not to mention they still use way more power.
5% lead in gaming is nothing to write home about, especially when it is achieved with fairly bog-standard B-die kits. The point is that there is still headroom left in Intel(with both core and memory OC), while there is none in AMD.
 

coercitiv

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Just like Intel's ML benchmarks - they're outliers and should be considered as such.
Just like overclocking and memory tuning is an outlier for the common gaming audience. They look at the stock gaming king and then they buy the SKU they can afford.

The 10900K needs to win reviews at stock or it will be up to RKL-S to do damage control.
 

Markfw

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5% lead in gaming is nothing to write home about, especially when it is achieved with fairly bog-standard B-die kits. The point is that there is still headroom left in Intel(with both core and memory OC), while there is none in AMD.
When Intel was in the lead in gaming, even 2% was "a big lead", not you are saying 5% is not a big lead ????
 

Markfw

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Just like overclocking and memory tuning is an outlier for the common gaming audience. They look at the stock gaming king and then they buy the SKU they can afford.

The 10900K needs to win reviews at stock or it will be up to RKL-S to do damage control.
a 14 nm product is supposed to beat a 7 nm ?
 

Carfax83

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DOTA 2 shouldn't be GPU-bottlenecked.

If the CPU can prepare and send more than enough draw calls to the GPU to keep it constantly busy, then the game is GPU bottlenecked. It's quite conceivable that a 10900K operating at roughly 5ghz would easily keep a 2080Ti GPU bottlenecked at 1080p high settings in Dota 2.

For comparison, a high FPS game like Doom Eternal at 1080p still received a large 40% performance boost when going from a 2080 Ti to a 3090, and on a 3900xt platform no less, indicating that the game was still GPU bottlenecked at 1080p and this game has one of the best implementations of Vulkan out there:




Custom-Designs der GeForce RTX 3090 im Test: Benchmarks in Full HD und WQHD (Update) - ComputerBase

I think 1080p High settings is adequate to judge CPU-bottlenecking because that is a more real-world scenario.

For practical purposes I agree, but when performing a CPU performance test, the resolution should be set to 720p or less to minimize GPU interference.
 
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tamz_msc

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Just like overclocking and memory tuning is an outlier for the common gaming audience. They look at the stock gaming king and then they buy the SKU they can afford.

The 10900K needs to win reviews at stock or it will be up to RKL-S to do damage control.
But at stock AMD barely scrapes through, with losses in two games, and without the outliers I'd reckon that Intel and AMD are even in gaming. Affordability-wise Intel is clearly the better choice right now when comparing the 10/12 core parts.
 
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tamz_msc

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If the CPU can prepare and send more than enough draw calls to the GPU to keep it constantly busy, then the game is GPU bottlenecked. It's quite conceivable that a 10900K operating at roughly 5ghz would easily keep a 2080Ti GPU bottlenecked at 1080p high settings in Dota 2.

For comparison, a high FPS game like Doom Eternal at 1080p still received a large 40% performance boost when going from a 2080 Ti to a 3090, and on a 3900xt platform no less, indicating that the game was still GPU bottlenecked at 1080p and this game has one of the best implementations of Vulkan out there:



Custom-Designs der GeForce RTX 3090 im Test: Benchmarks in Full HD und WQHD (Update) - ComputerBase



For practical purposes I agree, but when performing a CPU performance test, the resolution should be set to 720p or less to minimize GPU interference.
Nah DOTA 2 is nothing like Doom Eternal. I think it barely scales with resolution unless you go all the way up to 4K.
 

inf64

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I look forward to tests done at 1080ps with RTX 3090, that should be enough of GPU grunt to show how much better Zen3 is against CometLake.
 
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Kuiva maa

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There is no headroom left in Ryzen to OC. This is an established fact at this point. Zen 3 shouldn't be an exception. Even a modest memory tuning on Intel, like @JoeRambo has done on his system will put them ahead.
I find your remarks to be in bad faith. We know very well that Zen 2 sees a massive boost with tuned RAM and same frequency. If latency is still an issue, then RAM tuning will still give good performance boost possibly negating the oc boost of intel.
 

Arkaign

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But at stock AMD barely scrapes through, with losses in two games, and without the outliers I'd reckon that Intel and AMD are even in gaming. Affordability-wise Intel is clearly the better choice right now when comparing the 10/12 core parts.

The best way I'd put it is for someone with the wallet and desire for both gaming AND heavy compute, AMD is the only logical path now.

For pure gaming and a tuner/enthusiast, ie the type to tune IF ratios, memory clocks, latencies, and clock behavior, the prospect of extremely expensive offerings only about equal to a tuned 10600k is less exciting. Especially on a set budget. The 10600k regularly sees sub $300 pricing. It cuts both ways of course, someone wanting 4k/60 or 60hz in general is better off with a 3600 all day everyday.
 

SteveGrabowski

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Comparing the 3600x to 5600x at retail there is a $50 price increase which seems reasonable to me. I shop at Microcenter for cpu's so it's yet to be seen what the actual pricing may be. Guessing full retail with a $50 off when purchased with a MB....Based on past launches.

Consider the price increase across the board as a Big Navi tax. It's the way I'm viewing it. People want AMD to compete in GPU's also. The wafers way more profitable as CPU's vs GPU's. The CPU's are way more profitable as EPYC vs Zen.

No one bought the 3600x since it was a stupid chip, the 3600 that launched at $200 was the 6c/12t champion that everyone bought.
 
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coercitiv

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Friendly reminder to everyone that we did not see 5600X & 5800X gaming peformance, and the higher core count SKUs likely still pay some type of latency penalty... in some games.
 
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moinmoin

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Hm, somehow hoped for more details on the changes to the cores. Unified L3$ we knew for ages, and "Zero Bubble Branch Prediction" is the only new token brand we got to hear. What exactly are the improvements for Load/Store, and the changes to the issue width of int and float engines? I guess the event was squarely targeted at gamers, and have to hope wikichip or some other specialized site will get the info I'd like to hear about Zen 3.

and the pricing hits like a brick
+$50 across the board from Ryzen 3000 though.
The $50 rise for MSRP is unfortunate. But looking at other forums this was not an areas where AMD could have won over anybody skeptical anyway, most people were comparing street prices of Ryzen 3000 with these new MSRPs, of course the former are vastly lower with or without that imo rather small rise.

In AMD's case the MSRP always has been an early adopter premium. Honestly I consider the $50 rise rather low for what it is (and will wait for lower street prices as always ).

Seems to be in the middle between the 3080 and 2080ti, and between 85%-100% faster than the 5700xt. It's not terrible, but I was expecting 3080 performance (assuming that this is the top card).
I highly doubt they used the top card. Even in this video they first presented the 5900X to then top it with the 5950X later on. Giving away the best possible numbers as the tease for the next event would be out of character there.
 

IntelUser2000

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and this game has one of the best implementations of Vulkan out there:

What do we base this on? That it gets the biggest gain using Vulkan versus without?

That in itself is a poor indicator of implementation.

GTA:V for example scaled great with multiple cores, but when you ignored that and looked at it from a mile-high perspective, the game itself performed poorly even on relatively high end systems.

I wouldn't have used GTA:V as an example of a good multi-threaded implementation.

So if the gains are good when the implementation is top notch, then its actually good. But if it seems good the developer might have been on a time crunch and took resources from other part of the development to optimize for Vulkan, multi-threading(insert flavor of the day).
 
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lobz

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But at stock AMD barely scrapes through, with losses in two games, and without the outliers I'd reckon that Intel and AMD are even in gaming. Affordability-wise Intel is clearly the better choice right now when comparing the 10/12 core parts.
So you're dismissing numbers at will, then go ahead and 'reckon' a mid-single digit lead equal, even though the 'outliers you're dismissing represent the most CPU-bound games.
It's thoroughly disgusting what you've been doing here these past hours, therefore I sentence you to a one-year quarantine with Richie Rich in a room with nothing else but an A13 test system running Geekbench 5 24/7 in it.
 

SteveGrabowski

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Hm, somehow hoped for more details on the changes to the cores. Unified L3$ we knew for ages, and "Zero Bubble Branch Prediction" is the only new token brand we got to hear. What exactly are the improvements for Load/Store, and the changes to the issue width of int and float engines? I guess the event was squarely targeted at gamers, and have to hope wikichip or some other specialized site will get the info I'd like to hear about Zen 3.



The $50 rise for MSRP is unfortunate. But looking at other forums this was not an areas where AMD could have won over anybody skeptical anyway, most people were comparing street prices of Ryzen 3000 with these new MSRPs, of course the former are vastly lower with or without that imo rather small rise.

In AMD's case the MSRP always has been an early adopter premium. Honestly I consider the $50 rise rather low for what it is (and will wait for lower street prices as always ).


I highly doubt they used the top card. Even in this video they first presented the 5900X to then top it with the 5950X later on. Giving away the best possible numbers as the tease for the next event would be out of character there.

Ryzen 5 3600 MSRP has always been $200.
 

tamz_msc

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I find your remarks to be in bad faith. We know very well that Zen 2 sees a massive boost with tuned RAM and same frequency. If latency is still an issue, then RAM tuning will still give good performance boost possibly negating the oc boost of intel.
Show me tuned RAM results which show massive gains for Zen 2 that are NOT 720p benchmarks. You have 200 MHz headroom left on Zen 2 if you're overclocking memory and want to keep the DRAM:FCLK ratio at 1:1. On Intel you have a 800MHz headroom.
 

Carfax83

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Nah DOTA 2 is nothing like Doom Eternal. I think it barely scales with resolution unless you go all the way up to 4K.

Dota 2 running at over 300 FPS on an overclocked 9900K plus RTX 2080 at 1440p. This is with the framerate unlocked. The standard game has a framerate cap of 240 FPS, so I wonder if AMD knew that it had to be unlocked?

 

coercitiv

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Not if you follow NIST recommendations.
Do NIST recommendations include telling young gamers to ignore their favorite titles because their use case is not statically sound? What happens if this type of performance boost in Zen 3 gaming performance correlates with even more competitive titles which are built for a wider audience?

Personally I'll wait for the 5800X reviews until I declare a winner in this match up.
 

tamz_msc

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So you're dismissing numbers at will, then go ahead and 'reckon' a mid-single digit lead equal, even though the 'outliers you're dismissing represent the most CPU-bound games.
It's thoroughly disgusting what you've been doing here these past hours, therefore I sentence you to a one-year quarantine with Richie Rich in a room with nothing else but an A13 test system running Geekbench 5 24/7 in it.
Do you even know how outliers are decided? Here have a read:
"The games I play most are not outliers" attitude is completely wrong.
 
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