Ryzen-A Fail for Gamers?

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leoneazzurro

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Dude,seriously some games are like that,games like World of Tanks are even worse. Millions of people play these kinds of titles,games like Warcraft,etc. Games like Skyrim - look at the mods community for some of these games?? Its massive. Games like Planetside 2.

They are all lightly threaded - they all hog one or two cores massively. If you have a problem with that - then go onto the forums of these games and then ask people why they have decided to run games which don't use even two to four cores properly.

It seems that World of Tanks runs just fine:

http://www.pcaxe.com/hardver/procesori/amd-ryzen-1800x-asus-crosshair-vi-hero/strana-17

for the games you listed every modern CPU has plenty of spare power. For practically ALL today's games all the Ryzen or 7700K or 6800-6900K have absolutely no issue when coming to performance.
The "problem" is that someone is hinting that future games would have issues, which is likely not to be the case.
 

unseenmorbidity

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The developers are not incompetent. Before the release they never had a chance to get their hands on the CPUs. Most of the games were coded way before the hype has built up around the Zen architecture. It baffles me that people can jump both sides to conclusions, without understanding the great picture they are looking at.

AMD gave few first kits of Ryzen CPUs to optimize the hardware, after the launch.

Its funny on forums these days. Its much easier to jump to conclusions, rather than try to step back and understand what is happening.

Why do you think I don't know that? That is the exact point I am making in my posts. People jumping to conclusions about the uArch WAY too soon.

The fans are also jumping to conclusions way too soon(incompetent developers? what?).
Bethesda is incompetent. Every game they make is incredibly buggy and runs like ass.

Fallout4 could literally have been made in 2010, and no one would know.

I wasn't even talking about ryzen there....
 

dfk7677

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My theory about the performance of Ryzen in gaming is the following:
  1. Some games are essentially single threaded like Witcher 3, and in these games Ryzen will have around 30% lower performance than a 7600K because of lower clocks and IPC.
  2. There are some games that are multi threaded and Ryzen does get comparable FPS without being bottlenecked like GTA V. I think there is a bottleneck somewhere else, memory or cache. If I had to guess I would say memory bandwidth which is comparable to 7700K (like the FPS) but lower than 6900K (like the FPS).
  3. Ryzen will only be significantly better than 7700K in games that scale very good with more threads and don't have so high memory read requirements, which I am not aware of any atm.
In reality games that need a lot FPS (144Hz for some users) notably first person shooters in 1080p have them with both Ryzen and 7700K. The excess offered by 7700K in these games, doesn't really matter.

Games that don't need more than 60FPS in any resolution (eg Witcher 3) still have them with Ryzen too.

As for the future, I am sure that nobody in these forums expects a big jump in either frequencies or IPC, at least till 2019 with Icelake. So rest assured that future games will not push towards the single thread performance a lot. If you want to be future proof and not buy AMD, wait for 6C CFL in about 1 year.
 
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unseenmorbidity

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Dude,seriously some games are like that,games like World of Tanks are even worse. Millions of people play these kinds of titles,games like Warcraft,etc. Games like Skyrim - look at the mods community for some of these games?? Its massive. Games like Planetside 2.

They are all lightly threaded - they all hog one or two cores massively. If you have a problem with that - then go onto the forums of these games and then ask people why they have decided to run games which don't use even two to four cores properly.

You have this strange obsession to keep saying only new games are relevant - how many of those new games are single player FPSes,which don't last that long?? BF1 might be an exception but DICE is an exception when it comes to these kind of online games going back to BF2.

All you are doing is jumping on people who don't push your narrative that Ryzen has any weaknesses in gaming,when AMD has contradicted what you have said and gone to games companies and given them kit.

Even your irrational hate for Bethesda has been contradicted by AMD trying to work with them to get Vulkan into their games - AMD knows how popular their games are.

Only you don't seem to understand this.

AMD even has said they need to get better optimisation for Ryzen since many games are coded for Intel CPUs - if you have an issue with that then write to AMD and ask why they mentioned this??

Because in the end on the games forums where those people run the games mentioned,they will start comparing hardware and if Intel does still look better,they will just still buy it,quietly.

If you want to play ancient games, then buy a used i5.



Again, I didn't mention Ryzen.

Bethesda is an industry joke.
 

USER8000

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It seems that World of Tanks runs just fine:

http://www.pcaxe.com/hardver/procesori/amd-ryzen-1800x-asus-crosshair-vi-hero/strana-17

for the games you listed every modern CPU has plenty of spare power. For practically ALL today's games all the Ryzen or 7700K or 6800-6900K have absolutely no issue when coming to performance.
The "problem" is that someone is hinting that future games would have issues, which is likely not to be the case.

You might want to run it during the bigger battles and see how far you get.

This was posted on reddit and some other forums and has had 3million+ views:

http://imgur.com/gallery/mV9bFz7

Its the joke people make about World of Tanks and its optimisations.

You would never say that if you ever played Fallout 4 especially when building settlements,or with mods like War of the Commonwealth - my Ivy Bridge Core i7 3770 with a GTX1080 can hit under 30FPS at times.

Creation is known for being a hog and anybody who plays these games would know this.

If you want to play ancient games, then buy a used i5.

So basically you are telling millions of people to not buy an R7 then - own goal.
 

Glo.

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You might want to run it during the bigger battles and see how far you get.

This was posted on reddit and some other forums and has had 3million+ views:

http://imgur.com/gallery/mV9bFz7

Its the joke people make about World of Tanks and its optimisations.

You would never say that if you ever played Fallout 4 especially when building settlements,or with mods like War of the Commonwealth - my Ivy Bridge Core i7 3770 with a GTX1080 can hit under 30FPS at times.

Creation is known for being a hog and anybody who plays these games would know this.



So basically you are telling millions of people to not buy an R7 then - own goal.
The beauty of it is that the IPC of Ryzen CPU is on the same level as Broadwell/Haswell. Is it not?
 
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unseenmorbidity

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You might want to run it during the bigger battles and see how far you get.

This was posted on reddit and some other forums and has had 3million+ views:

http://imgur.com/gallery/mV9bFz7

Its the joke people make about World of Tanks and its optimisations.

You would never say that if you ever played Fallout 4 especially when building settlements,or with mods like War of the Commonwealth - my Ivy Bridge Core i7 3770 with a GTX1080 can hit under 30FPS at times.

Creation is known for being a hog and anybody who plays these games would know this.



So basically you are telling millions of people to not buy an R7 then - own goal.

Yah, they can buy our used cpus, and we will get Ryzen, and play new games.

Everyone wins
 
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USER8000

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The beauty of it is that the IPC of Ryzen CPU is on the same level as Broadwell/Haswell. Is it not?

You know what is worse - is some of you know how I posted on here and defended AMD so many times - yet the moment anybody tries to point out anything negative you start turning on people.

But sure - 3 million+ views on a video in the last year or so joking about World of Tanks scaling poorly in performance is obviously not a valid meme.
 
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USER8000

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WTF does own goal mean!?

Yah, they can buy our used cpus, and we will get Ryzen, and play new games.

Everyone wins.

Basically you are saying nobody should buy Ryzen for those games - yet AMD said they were working with Bethesda to improve performance in future titles.

Surely,doesn't that indicate to you AMD knows performance is not all there??

If that wasn't the case,why would AMD send out 100s of kits to companies??
 

Puffnstuff

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You know what is worse - is some of you know how I posted on here and defended AMD so many times - yet the moment anybody tries to point out anything negative you start turning on people.
Ain't that the truth. Gents I've built systems by both companies over the years using both NVidia and ati gpu's and I always get the hardware that suites my needs at the moment. I like many others only want the best performance for our hard earned money and when a company tells us that they can provide us with a certain level of performance we expect to see that performance. In this instance we have not only seen the product fall short in real world testing but have also seen the excuse wall go up for it.
 
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unseenmorbidity

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Basically you are saying nobody should buy Ryzen for those games - yet AMD said they were working with Bethesda to improve performance in future titles.

Surely,doesn't that indicate to you AMD knows performance is not all there??

If that wasn't the case,why would AMD send out 100s of kits to companies??
Wait, what are you saying?

Performance is bad in one badly coded game!? ok
AMD is working with Bethesda. ok. Maybe they are trying to hold bethesda's hand and fix it? idk

Yah, the performance is going to improve with updates...

Drivers
Windows
bios
Games

Some old badly coded games like FO4 may never work as well as they do with a 7700k or even a 7600k.
 
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USER8000

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Ain't that the truth. Gents I've built systems by both companies over the years using both NVidia and ati gpu's and I always get the hardware that suites my needs at the moment. I like many others only wan the best performance for our hard earned money and when a company tells us that they can provide us with a certain level of performance we expect to see that performance. In this instance we have not only seen the product fall short in real world testing but have also seen the excuse wall go up for it.

Its hilarious really,since you see them rush out of the woodwork and get over excited and insinuate anyone who says anything negative about their favourite product is against that company,but on purpose ignore the amount of times people like me had taken on certain other posters who are infamous here on certain claims. They are terrified to actually look through my own posting history since it deflects their view that anybody who criticise Ryzen is against AMD,even when AMD is on record saying performance needs to get better. Yet when it is indicated performance needs to improve,they try to bury it - surely they are not that overexcited to realise even pointing out this might make sense,if AMD catches on that certain titles are worse than others.

Its like in the graphics section - both lots want to hide issues in Nvidia and AMD cardsw

Nope.

Edit!!

It shows the utter problems they have when I was the first person to post the comments about Windows drivers coming in 30 days.

Not any of them. Wee,I hate AMD so I just posted something about performance improvements.

All these people don't understand is that their nature will only mean certain characters on here who have retreated for a while,will come back in full force when the other company releases their stuff.

I don't envy the mods at all.
 
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Puffnstuff

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Its hilarious really,since you see them rush out of the woodwork and get over excited and insinuate anyone who says anything negative about their favourite product is against that company,but on purpose ignore the amount of times people like me had taken on certain other posters who are infamous here on certain claims. They are terrified to actually look through my own posting history since it deflects their view that anybody who criticise Ryzen is against AMD,even when AMD is on record saying performance needs to get better. Yet when it is indicated performance needs to improve,they try to bury it - surely they are not that overexcited to realise even pointing out this might make sense,if AMD catches on that certain titles are worse than others.

Its like in the graphics section - both lots want to hide issues in Nvidia and AMD cardsw

Nope.

Edit!!

It shows the utter problems they have when I was the first person to post the comments about Windows drivers coming in 30 days.

Not any of them. Wee,I hate AMD so I just posted something about performance improvements.

All these people don't understand is that their nature will only mean certain characters on here who have retreated for a while,will come back in full force when the other company releases their stuff.

I don't envy the mods at all.
The stretching involved to find some valid reason for buying a Ryzen is just too funny to me. I'm not opposed to one for a budget build which is exactly what it would be great for but it isn't the processing powerhouse that AMD led us to believe it was prior to release. Once the cat was out of the bag the excuse machine fired up into full swing along with sympathizers who attack anyone who opposed their skewed reasoning.
 
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USER8000

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The stretching involved to find some valid reason for buying a Ryzen is just too funny to me. I'm not opposed to one for a budget build which is exactly what it would be great for but it isn't the processing powerhouse that AMD led us to believe it was prior to release. Once the cat was out of the bag the excuse machine fired up into full swing along with sympathizers who attack anyone who opposed their skewed reasoning.

Don't get me wrong Ryzen is a fantastic CPU - but if you look at reviews,it does have weaknesses relative to some Intel CPUs,and AMD has not denied it one bit. They even said they sent out kits to improve performance and they were honest enough to say they could not give a time frame. AMD said that. So I really don't understand why these people are getting so worked up since it does not do as well as the competition in certain cases - surely if you are the biggest AMD fan in the world you would want to highlight it so AMD will try and work on improving performance.

It was like with my last card - it was a Nvidia one and it had issues,which I was candid about elsewhere and people started thinking I was some AMD fanboi since I just honestly spoke my mind.

You can't win - one day you are insinuated to be an AMD fanboi,an Intel one,etc.

I posted the Legit reviews comment about the patches which gave the 30 day time-frame for the first tranche of Windows updates with the R5 1600X reviews.

Its even funnier since they probably think anybody who has any negative to say about Ryzen is probably the famous lot who retreated for a while from here,ie,the same lot I actually tried to counter at times when they went into overdrive even in the blasted Ryzen thread. But what they don't understand is that they will drive everybody away who does not toe their line 100% which means when the Blue team release their new CPUs,the other lot will jump back here and ram it down their throat too,and there will be nobody in-between left.
 
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scannall

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The stretching involved to find some valid reason for buying a Ryzen is just too funny to me. I'm not opposed to one for a budget build which is exactly what it would be great for but it isn't the processing powerhouse that AMD led us to believe it was prior to release. Once the cat was out of the bag the excuse machine fired up into full swing along with sympathizers who attack anyone who opposed their skewed reasoning.
For my use anyway, Intel doesn't have anything at a price I am willing to pay. I do a lot of modeling and rendering, and Ryzen fits that bill perfectly for me. My gaming is all done at 4k anyway, so the 1080 tests really don't mean a thing for *my* uses. Yours may be different, and good for you. But for me the Ryzen is just right.
 

Puffnstuff

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I really wanted the 1800x to be a blazing gun out of the box that slayed its competition in everything sent its way. I'm afraid that the promise of Vega will stumble in the very same way since its based upon the same architecture. At least NVidia dropped the price of the 1080 Ti to a more reasonable level at launch.
 

Head1985

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My theory about the performance of Ryzen in gaming is the following:
  1. Some games are essentially single threaded like Witcher 3, and in these games Ryzen will have around 30% lower performance than a 7600K because of lower clocks and IPC.
Witcher3 is one of few games that can use more than 12cores.
Ryzen is slower in games that need fast memory bandwidth and low latency like fallout4 and witcher3.
 

USER8000

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Witcher3 is one of few games that can use more than 12cores.
Ryzen is slower in games that need fast memory bandwidth and low latency like fallout4 and witcher3.

Well it might be worth me checking back if the motherboard BIOSes get sorted out then I suppose, as memory support should be improved.
 

Head1985

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Ryzen can use fast memory, but that IMC have high latency resulting in low performance.
Games that dont need fast memory bandwidth and low latency runs pretty good around HW/Bw IPC like deus ex.

I am not sure if IMC can be fixed via BIOS...
 

PotatoWithEarsOnSide

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So the argument goes that because loads of people play games that aren't properly threaded, everyone in the future should be restricted from seeing the benefits that multi-threading can bring.
I couldn't give a flying duck about whether someone else plays those games; at the end of the day, that is their choice.
However, I don't want game developers to feel constarined in what they can offer simply because badly threaded games are still quite popular. The whole point of technological progression is that you design products to best utilise the hardware that is currently available, or is highly likely to be available in the near future.
 

Sable

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The stretching involved to find some valid reason for buying a Ryzen is just too funny to me. I'm not opposed to one for a budget build which is exactly what it would be great for but it isn't the processing powerhouse that AMD led us to believe it was prior to release. Once the cat was out of the bag the excuse machine fired up into full swing along with sympathizers who attack anyone who opposed their skewed reasoning.
Please link to where AMD said it would be a processing powerhouse. They said 40% increase in IPC over Excavator and actually beat that.
 

Sable

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I really wanted the 1800x to be a blazing gun out of the box that slayed its competition in everything sent its way. I'm afraid that the promise of Vega will stumble in the very same way since its based upon the same architecture. At least NVidia dropped the price of the 1080 Ti to a more reasonable level at launch.
In that case you deluded yourself because that was never going to happen.
 

leoneazzurro

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You might want to run it during the bigger battles and see how far you get.

This was posted on reddit and some other forums and has had 3million+ views:

http://imgur.com/gallery/mV9bFz7

Its the joke people make about World of Tanks and its optimisations.

You would never say that if you ever played Fallout 4 especially when building settlements,or with mods like War of the Commonwealth - my Ivy Bridge Core i7 3770 with a GTX1080 can hit under 30FPS at times.

Creation is known for being a hog and anybody who plays these games would know this.
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Uhm.. that was 2015, since then WoT has gained (poor, I have to admit) multicore support. I know, because I play it since 2013. But that game does not have "massive battles", the biggest you can get is 15 vs 15. And you are more GPU limited than CPU limited. I played with a notebook (with Intel 2820QM) and during the years I had to occasionally reduce detail here and there to be fluid, but CPU did not left me behind. Network performance, on other hand, matters a lot, especially with (sometimes) crappy servers. Now I switched in January to an HP Omen 17" with Skylake 6700H and GTX1070, and I can play it without an issue at max detail (finally). Anyway, my point is that Ryzen is not a bad gaming CPU, actually is a bad value if the only thing you do is gaming, it may (and it should) become better as software evolves and be a much better value in the future. Nevetheless, it is NOT a bad gaming GPU, as you can anyway play without compromises all the titles out there while at the same time being a rock solid productivity performer. Simply, it is not the best value if the only thing you do is gaming.
 
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