| Bofferbrauer2 said: I found this article from Techspot/video from Hardware Unboxed (they're basically the same guys) very interesting. It shows how the Ryzen 5 have evolved from the 1600X over the 2600X and 3600X to the 5600X, and how they hold up next to each other. What's very interesting is how the 1600X behaves. In short, the Radeon 5700X has on medium settings or 1080p, so at the CPU limit, in general measurably higher FPS than an RTX 3070 or even 3090. In some cases, even the Radeon 5600X gets close to the RTX 3090 in that scenario. The problem being supposedly the higher overhead for the RTX cards to fill their shaders, costing additional CPU performance when the processor is already at it's limits. |
This is why HWU is one of my favourite Youtuber/reviewers around. Like they go super in depth with all hardware, even with older tech and puts it up against the latest and greatest.
Quite interesting that a 1600X actually holds up well in modern titles and even some for 4K gaming - CPU bound stuff. Even 1440P with mid-range GPUs - though sub-optimal in certain settings it fascinating seeing benchmarks when paired with different GPU's and scenarios.
Last edited by hinch - on 16 February 2021
