Gaming Performance Cont.
In order to test gaming performance properly and 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, all three resolutions to see from top to bottom how these CPUs affect performance games. For testing, we are using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition video card. Since we are testing all 3 resolutions, it’ll be a good mix to see where the CPU matters and where it doesn’t.
All the graphs below are not sorted, they are not sorted from fastest to slowest as in previous graphs, instead, they are simply labeled in groups by platform, from fastest CPU to least fastest CPU. As you look at performance, try to look down the column of the resolution, to see which one is faster than the other, to help your eyes see which one is faster.
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 is notoriously demanding, and as such at 4K we are most certainly GPU bound. Even at 1440p, we are GPU bound, but there is a little positioning happening. The 7600X is a few FPS faster than the 5600X at 1440p, but note the Alder Lake CPUs are a few FPS faster than the 7600X at 1440p. At 1080p we really see the difference. The 7600X is only 7% faster than the 5600X, while the Alder Lake CPUs, including the 12600K is a bit faster than the 7600X.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is a notoriously CPU-driven game, and you can see that above with the performance being so close in each resolution. We are using the latest patch in the game, and DX12 is enabled. The first thing that you can clearly see is how much faster the new Zen 4 CPUs are in this game. The Ryzen 5 7600X and 7900X simply blow away every CPU here, including all the Alder Lake CPUs.
Firstly, Alder Lake is superior in performance over the Ryzen 5000 series, they offer a lot of performance, and the Ryzen 7 58003D is also a champion in this game. But as much as Alder Lake improved performance over the Ryzen 5000 series, the new Ryzen 7000 CPUs blow away Alder Lake in this game. They just truly allow the best experience at every resolution, 4K included.
We have included Crysis Remastered because this game is also very CPU-driven. At 4K, we can see it is not so much, but at 1440p and below it is. The Ryzen 5 7600X is 4% faster than the 5600X at 1440p and 16% faster at 1080p, which is quite a big uplift. The best CPU here is the 5800X3D, this game loves that Cache. Also, note that the Core i5-12600K beats the 7600X at 1440p, but the 7600X beats it at 1080p.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
We decided to throw in an older game, which we used to use for GPU benchmarks quite a bit because this game was used in AMD marketing for performance, it was in one of their graphs for gaming performance. We thought it would be good to have some validated tests done so you can validate their results as well and compare against it. But this game actually turned out to be quite good for the 1080p results. At 4K it’s GPU bound, and also at 1440p. At 1080p though we can see the Ryzen 5 7600X is 17% faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X, so that is quite large. We can also see the 7600X beating the Core i5-12600K quite a bit here as well, and is closer to 12900K performance. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is doing really well here as well.