AMD Ryzen Game Patch Optimizations Show Significant Gains On Zen Architecture (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: AMD got the attention of PC performance enthusiasts everywhere with the recent launch of its Ryzen 7 series processors. The trio of 8-core chips competitively take on Intel's Core i7 series at the high-end of its product stack. However, with the extra attention AMD garnered, came significant scrutiny as well. With any entirely new platform architecture, there are bound to be a few performance anomalies -- as was the case with the now infamous lower performance "1080p gaming" situation with Ryzen. In a recent status update, AMD noted they were already working with developers to help implement "simple changes" that can help a game engine's understanding of the AMD Zen core topology that would likely provide an additional performance uplift with Ryzen. Today, we have some early proof-positive of that, as Oxide Games, in concert with AMD, released a patch for its game title Ashes Of The Singularity. Ashes has been a "poster child" game engine of sorts for AMD Radeon graphics over the years (especially with respect to DX12) and it was one that ironically showed some of the worst variations in Ryzen CPU performance versus Intel. With this new patch that is now public for the game, however, AMD claims to have regained significant ground in benchmark results at all resolutions. In the 1080p benchmarks with powerful GPUs, a Ryzen 7 1800X shows an approximate 20% performance improvement with the latest version of the Ashes, closing the gap significantly versus Intel. This appears to be at least an early sign that AMD can indeed work with game and other app developers to tune for the Ryzen architecture and wring out additional performance.

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Re:I'm sold for better or for worse.

[Billly Gates]

Let's look at the hype?

Intel CPUs have significant per core IPC still. Try %30 per game with massive fps differences on stick settings ram while Intel ones are all over locked and can take on faster ram frequencies giving the +25 fps advantage.

Worse Windows 10 cripples them! Windows 7 benchmarked on YouTube showed massive performance increases on Nvidia optimized games like Tomb Raider as the CPU scheduling bug is real. AMD is now downplaying it as MS won't fix it due to lack of marketshare.

Neowin.net reported MS to drop AMD from Hyper-V due to lack of marketshare on the creators update of Windows 10 if you do virtualization. Also VMware ESX fails to post. Ram fails to post that is not under locked on some MSI boards with no updates. MSI only is updating the $399 non carbon model.

Last your scientific apps may have used Intel compilers that are not IEEE compliant and use x87 fpu instructions to make Intel look good benchmarking. Fortran from Intel is popular with scientific apps which is why I brought it up.

Intel still won sadly in my opinion. I was rooting for AMD while Ryzen is a massive improvement it still cannot beat them as Intel has the R&D. Let's see Ryzen 2.0? I would hold off for a year or get an Intel still as they are very stable and mature and production ready.