PC World - USA (2019-08)

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Moving on to the slightly older Rise of the
Tomb Raider, we again see just how a “slow”
card like the old GeForce GTX 1080 FE is the
bottleneck in RoTR. It’s basically a three-way

tie on the 1080, and you’d likely see that on

any card short of an RTX 2080 and up.

Fortunately, Nvidia makes that handy

$1,200 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti card, which still

Ryzen 9 3900X Zen 2 (12/24)

Core i9-9900K Cofee

Lake R (8/16)

Ryzen 7 2700X Zen+

(8/16)

Far Cry 5 1920x1080, Ultra, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Fps)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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We’re not sure why, but the Ryzen 9 loses by a decent amount in Far Cry 5 to the Core i9. We couldn’t run Far
Cry 5 on the Ryzen 7 2700X because the copy protection of the legal copy we used would no longer run.

Ryzen 9 3900X Zen 2 (12/24)

Core i9-9900K Cofee

Lake R (8/16)

Ryzen 7 2700X Zen+

(8/16)

Counter Strike: GO.

19x10, High, FPS benchmark, GeForce GTX 1080 FE (Fps)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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CS:Go is a game we only needed to break out the GTX 1080 FE for. It’s not like you need more than 300 fps.

Ryzen 9 3900x Zen 2 (12/24)

Core i9-9900K Cofee

Lake R (8/16)

Ryzen 7 2700X Zen+

(8/16)

Rise of the Tomb Raider

19x10 Highest Quality Setting, DX12, GeForce GTX 2080 Ti FE (Fps)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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The Ryzen 9 3900X doesn’t beat the Core i9, but it’s pretty close.

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