Gaming Performance

Right so AMD has stressed, heavily stressed that the 2990WX isn't a gaming CPU, well aye no kidding. Games are struggling to use the 8-core 2700X, they aren't going to benefit from 32-cores and they certainly aren't going to like the design of the 2990WX. Fifty-fifty and then the 2990WX isn't terrible in Ashes of the Singularity and while slower than the 2700X, the functioning is perfectly fine.

The 2950X takes a minor footstep from the 1950X, tacking on a few more frames and overall delivered a great gaming experience in this title. As well recall nosotros are using a GTX 1080 Ti at 1080p and the high quality preset is 2 steps downwardly from the max. Had we used the extreme or crazy presets at least the pinnacle half of the graph would be heavily GPU bound.

Okay then these results look a lot more brutal for the 2990WX, though I should note that gameplay was still polish, no stuttering and frame rates remained well over 60 fps. Still the 32-core model was well downwardly on the new sixteen-cadre 2950X which averaged an impressive 153 fps.

Moving on nosotros find a similar story when testing with F1 2022, the 2990WX looks like a low-end Pentium processor but at least it was smooth and playable. The 2950X matched the 2700X and that meant it wasn't a great deal slower than the most expensive Skylake-X CPUs.

The Threadripper CPUs play well in Assassinator's Creed Origins, taking out the top 3 spots. Granted at near they were just a few frames faster than the Skylake-X parts, but that's still a groovy result. As expected the 2990WX tanks and here it was noticeably slower than the ability processors tested.

Before we movement on from gaming hither is a quick await at one-half legacy fashion for the 2990WX. This is a characteristic in the Ryzen Principal software, essentially information technology's a downcore role that disables one-half of the dies in the 2990WX, then ii of the dies, 16 of the cores. There is too a quarter style also that basically turn the 2990WX in a 2700X.

These legacy modes are for software that doesn't work well with all cores active, software like games for example. Equally you can see in the half legacy model the 2990WX sees a 10% boost in performance when testing with Ashes of the Singularity.

Then when testing with F1 2022 we see a massive 135% increase in frame rate and now the 2990WX acts exactly like the 2950X. Then the gaming performance can exist fixed but turning the 2990WX into a 2950X, only that'south inappreciably a practical solution. I should make it very clear that in gild to enable the legacy style you demand to execute a full system reset. So it's only something you'd use out of accented desperation and it would simply be a very temporary thing equally I assume anyone buying a 32-cadre processor wants 32-cores and not sixteen or 8.