JULY 2019 PCWorld 13Remember the “Optimized” Windows
scheduler fix that bumped Rocket League’s
performance by 15 percent?
All of the performance testing you’re
seeing here, AMD officials tell us, are done
without the updated Windows scheduler
in place. AMD also tells us it didn’t install
the latest security mitigation for Intel’s
chips either.
So while MCE Auto would likely give the
Intel chip more performance, the Ryzen 3000
probably would also see a bump in some
games from the latest Windows 10 scheduler.
WHAT ABOUT CONTENT
CREATION APPLICATIONS?
One thing we didn’t talk about is the content
creation performance of the new Ryzen 3000
chips. That’s because, frankly, it’s boring
news. We should all know by now that a
12-core Ryzen 9
3900X is going to
outpace an 8-core
Core i9-9900K. We
will run one
benchmark chart
from AMD to humor
you, but from Ryzen
9 to Ryzen 7 and
Ryzen 5, AMD has
both core- and
thread-count
advantages over
Intel’s Core i9, Core
i7, and Core i5. In applications that really use
all of those threads and cores, AMD wins 9
out of 10 times. So yawn.
What this comes down to, and why it now
makes sense that AMD launched its Ryzen
chips at E3 instead of Computex, is that the
new chips may very well remove the only
advantage Intel may have left: gaming.
Coming on the heel’s of Intel’s brazen
challenge (go.pcworld.com/chal) to AMD to
stop showing only multi-threaded
benchmarks and use “real-world gaming,”
the gaming performance of these chips is
really the only thing that matters here at E3.
Obviously, you should wait for
independent reviews to see if AMD’s
claims are true, but the battle for the “best
gaming CPU” (go.pcworld.com/gmsp)
and the crown is going to get really hot,
really soon.It’s crazy that we’re actually bored by how much faster Ryzen is over Core chips
in multi-threaded performance.