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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

So, basically, this is a pointless test because the scenario used for it is so out of reality that it doesn't matter.

I wouldn't say it's pointless because it shows CPU scaling in this game when it's not GPU bound. So if you were to upgrade to RDNA 3 or Lovelace or future GPUs, you could see bigger uplifts in performance with Ryzen 5000 CPUs for this game.

Anandtech does their CPU gaming tests the same way by lowering the resolution (In the games that need it) to 360p to elevate any GPU bottlenecks to see how the CPU scales.

See my comment below.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

So, basically, this is a pointless test because the scenario used for it is so out of reality that it doesn't matter.

It's not pointless at all. It's about future-proofing your hardware.

While currently GPUs are not powerful enough to not be the limiting factor, future GPUs very well will be. So if you can't or won't upgrade your CPU but the GPU instead you can see how high the FPS could be if the GPU is not the limiting factor anymore.

I understand why they do this kind of test, but the same benchmark could be done at 720p with no further tricks (or 480p for some of those handheld gaming PCs) and, since no current (or from the last couple of gens) high-end cards will be GPU limited at that resolution, still get the useful results.