Hardware & Software

Hardware List

• CPU - AMD Ryzen R7 1700X
• Motherboard - MSI B350M Mortar Arctic (BIOS 7A37vAG, released 12/11/18)
• RAM - Team Group Delta RGB TUF DDR4, 3200Mhz XMP2
• CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-U12S (1x NF-A12x25)
• GPU - Radeon RX 580, Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB
• PSU - Corsair TX-650M 80+ Gold 650W
• Storage - 128GB Radeon R3 SSD, SATA 2.5''
• Monitor - LG 1080p 75Hz IPS, Freesync

OS, Software, & Benchmarks/Games

• Windows 10 Home, Build 1803.
• Radeon Adrenalin 18.12.1.1 drivers
• 3D Mark FireStrike
• 3D Mark TimeSpy
• 7-zip 16.04
• Aida64 5.97
• Cinebench R15
• Corona 1.3
• CPU-Z 1.85
• Frybench
• Handbrake 1.1.0 2017
• RealBench 2.56
• Thaiphoon
• WPrime 2.1 (1024 M)

In games, we will test @ the 1080p resolution, given that this is what my GPU is really designed for. Of course, the RX 580 can still be your limiting factor at 1080p, but I'm not exactly in the money for a new GPU at the moment, so we will have to make do. I have attempted to choose games that are more CPU dependent, here, or at least titles that have CPU heavy moments. Where possible, canned/pre-done benchmarks will be used in order to show a direct side by side comparison. Where there isn't one available, a pre-planned 'run' will be done through a certain segment of the game.

• Battlefield 5 - High/TAA High/DX11
• Civilization 6 - 1080p, Ultra/DX11
• Doom 2016 - Ultra/1080p/Vulkan
• Assassins Creed: Oddessey - High/1080p/DX11

Moving on, we will look at total system memory bandwidth when tested with Aida64.