Gaming Performance Continued
Now we come to the interesting testing we are sure you all can’t wait for, we were also anxious to get to this part and see how it all ends up for gaming performance. In order to test this properly, really get a good feel for it, and cover all the bases for the big picture, we decided to test 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolutions when possible. Forgive us, as some of the graphs do not have 3700X performance for comparison. For testing, we are using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition video card.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2021
In MS Flight Sim 2020 at 1080p and “Ultra” the Ryzen 7 5700G seems to be a bottleneck in this game. Even though it has the newer Zen 3 architecture, its lack of cache plays a big role in MS Flight Sim being a lot slower on it. The Ryzen 7 3700X is 13% faster than the Ryzen 7 5700G, despite the 3700X being on the older Zen 2 architecture and having a lower clock speed. You’d think the 5700G would be faster with Zen 3 and a higher clock speed, but apparently, MS Flight Sim is more susceptible to L3 Cache capacity!
The Ryzen 7 5700G is still ultimately bottlenecking this game at 1440p as well. The 5800X is 14% faster than the 5700G, the 5700G is 12% slower.
At 4K though, we are completely GPU bound. Therefore all 3 CPUs share the same performance.
Watch Dogs Legion
Watch Dogs Legion is also sensitive to CPU performance at 1080p even on “Ultra” settings. Here we see the architectural benefits of the 5700G with it being 15% faster than the 3700X! The 5700G is only 4% slower than the 5800X.
At 1440p the 5700G is only 3% behind the 5800X.
At 4K we are now GPU bound, but the 5700G actually does quite well, just a slight advantage above the 3700X.