From FX-8000 to Zen 3: how has CPU performance changed from AMD in nine years?

On Techspotu Thus, a test was conducted regarding the performance development of AMD’s eight-core processors in particular, although the old FX-8350 can only be considered an eight-core with a large margin, and anyone would call it a quad-core with such a slightly better SMT. After all, AMD was formerly sued because it commonly referred to its Bulldozers as up to eight-core processors, and then decided to settle itself with a counterparty to which it paid $ 12.1 million. –

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The performance of selected processors is of course also affected by their platform, which in the case of the FX-8350 means the use of DDR3 memory, namely standard 2400MHz modules. And that the FX-8350 is essentially a quad-core processor, the tester decided to limit the other tested, namely Ryzen 7 1800X, 2700X, 3800X and 5800X to four cores, but with SMT. The FX-8350 thus works in the default configuration, but this does not mean that the multi-core processors were completely ignored in the test. We also have the Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 9 5950X in the default settings.

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The results show mainly a comparison of the game performance of processors artificially limited to 4C / 8T, and to make it clear whether and how much the resulting performance in a given game is affected by such a limitation, we have two more results. All processors worked at 4.2 GHz, except for the Ryzen 7 1800X, which failed such a clock and ended up at 4.1 GHz.

It was tested mainly on current demanding games such as Watch Dogs Legion, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Cyberpunk 2077, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, etc. There is a huge jump between the FX generation and the first Ryzen and then a gradual further growth, with the first two Ryzens as expected, the difference is not what the Zen 2 and Zen 3 generations made.

In addition, we can also see that two extra physical cores already make sense, as the results of the Ryzen 5 5600X show, but the other ten cores will not bring much extra performance. The FX-8350 can no longer be considered a suitable processor for modern games, after all, its frame rate has already begun to fall below 50 FPS and the first generation of Zen is disproportionately better, although it is necessary to take into account that Ryzen The 7 1800X in the test works at higher beats than it should normally have set.

Above all, it shows what progress AMD has made in the last decade, and we could include future Zen 3 models with V-Cache, which promise another significant increase in performance in games.

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