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When AMD launched its Ryzen 7 family, it delivered a chip that exceeded our expectations in just about every category, but vicious down somewhat in gaming. Exactly how much of a problem this is depends on whether you tune your testing for CPU-centric or GPU-centric results, and to some extent, what GPU y'all use. Simply there was a clear gap at 1080p in both our Ryzen 7 review and our GTX 1080 Ti testing.

AMD's explanation for this phenomena was to merits that games required substantial optimization to work effectively with Ryzen. This was met with a raised eyebrow from much of the enthusiast community. It'south not that these claims are always unfounded — we've long known that game updates could amend performance on specific CPU architectures — but that the performance hit AMD took in gaming in our CPU review occurred across a broad range of titles. Promises that the situation could be fixed by optimization are not the same every bit proverb that the situation will be fixed by optimization, afterward all. Given AMD's relatively limited finances for fixing dozens of older titles, it wasn't clear nosotros'd encounter much interest from developers.

At to the lowest degree one game has been updated with better Ryzen support, nevertheless. Ashes of the Singularity, from Oxide, initially showed significant performance differences between itself and Intel. This gap persisted fifty-fifty when we used the GPU-axial exam for the game at Crazy detail, every bit opposed to the Very High settings we used for our CPU-centric testing. A graph from our GTX 1080 Ti review is presented below:

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But the 1080p tests are relevant for this commodity. Our GPU testing showed AMD lagging well backside Intel with both the 1070 and the 1080 Ti.

According to PC World, tests they've run in Ashes of the Singularity demonstrate a considerable performance proceeds for AMD. Their results aren't directly comparable with ours; they've tested low detail while our CPU review used Very Loftier and our 1080 Ti review used Crazy at the 1080p resolution.

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PC World reports that their Ryzen 7 1800X tests bear witness a 1.27x performance improvement in the GPU-focused test and a more small 12% boost in the CPU-focused test. Still, these improvements are but the kickoff according to Oxide developer Dan Baker.

"Every processor is different on how yous melody it, and Ryzen gave us some new data points on optimization," Oxide's Dan Baker told PCWorld. "We've invested thousands of hours tuning Intel CPUs to get every last bit of performance out of them, but comparatively little fourth dimension so far on Ryzen."

Bethesda has also pledged to piece of work with AMD to improve game performance in futurity titles, but it's not clear which already-shipping titles will be retroactively updated to improve CPU support. Then again, Ryzen is typically still much faster than Piledriver, and nosotros've seen no prove even so of a title that falls downwardly to the betoken that a CPU optimization patch is critically required.