AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X review - Performance - Games: Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)

Performance - Games - GeForce GTX 1080 - Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)

The game begins with a small camp at Siberia, where Lara is gazing at the huge mountains that await them. Jonah tells her that the others won't be accompanying them anymore except him. The climb soon becomes challenging, with Lara nearly falling down to her death. As Lara reaches the top, she sees the ruins of Kitezh from afar, but the storm strikes the mountain and separates the two.

This particular test has the following enabled:

• DX12
• Very high Quality mode
• FXAA/HBAO+ enabled
• 16x AF enabled
• Pure Hair Normal (on)
• Tessellation On

Our scores are average frame rates so you need to keep a margin in mind for lower FPS at all times. As such, we say 40 FPS in your preferred monitor resolution for this game should be your minimum, while 60 FPS (frames per second) can be considered optimal. We opted for the GeForce GTX 1080 as it really requires a fast processor to be able to keep up with that raw horsepower. 

** Right before testing Ryzen 3 and Threadripper a new game patch was issued and kicked in. Ryzen perf is going up and up and up and up with each new patch (great to see). We still need to re-test Ryzen series 5 and 7 but as you can see, the immense gap has pretty much been closed with merely game engine optimizations.