MajinCry
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Kind of hard to draw conclusions off one data point and game. Looking the performance to price ratio of the Ryzen 5 1600 and R7 1700, I would to have say that both of them offer the best value in CPUs right now.
One data point? Read the graph, there's four pertaining to Ryzen. In order of least-worst to best at draw calls, per clock:
Main thread on one CCX + driver thread on differing CCX + slow RAM | Worse than Core 2
Main thread on one CCX + driver thread on differing CCX + fast RAM | As fast as Core 2
Main thread & driver thread on one CCX + slow RAM | Faster than Core 2
Main thread & driver thread on one CCX + fast RAM | Faster than Sandybridge
So on a game that assigns itself to four cores, on a platform with fast DDR4 (~3000Mhz), the best case scenario, draw call performance is around Ivybridge.
Fallout 4 is one of the best for benchmarking CPU prowess, as it:
Has several thousand actors being processed at any given time
Issues several thousand draw calls in the least intensive areas
Issues over ten thousand draw calls in the most intensive areas
Uses over 7GB of RAM with a vanilla install
Has many active threads, with over 100k thread locks per frame
It's a pile of garbage engine, and Bethesda's games are the only ones that offer an extremely moddable, open world sandbox with a fully fledged game editor. It's a worst case scenario; if your CPU performs well in Fallout 4, it'll perform really well in most other games. If it performs badly...Wellp.