Ampere Is Coming
Did you know it’s been two years since Nvidia introducedGeForce RTX 20GPUs?
Ampere, rumored to be much more powerful.
That’s certainly exciting and is something that will keep us busy in the weeks and months to come.
Except that we’ve got a tough choice to make.
It’s pretty clear what the majority wants and that’s a compelling enough reason to go with AMD.
Then with the slower 5700 XT that margin is reduced to just 2%.
Not a huge margin, but it is a small win for the red team.
Then at 4K we see something quite interesting, where the 3950X was slightly faster.
Here the 3950X and 10900K delivered virtually identical performance with both the 2080 Ti and 5700 XT.
That being the case we find the same story at 1440p, identical performance with both GPUs.
Wolfenstein: Youngblood, like Doom Eternal, is not a CPU sensitive game.
Last up we have Horizon Zero Dawn results and this game is a bit of a rollercoaster.
However, we also see something else here that’s very interesting.
But before we get into that, let’s quickly go over the data.
The difference here is negligible for the most part with the current GeForce king.
Then at 4K the 3950X can hit the lead, albeit by a single percent.
Even if next-gen GPUs are 50% faster, that won’t really change much.
Once again, it’s the 4K results that are the most interesting.
There wasn’t a single instance where the 3950X was slower than the 10900K.
Get an RTX 2060 if that’s all you want to play.
We’re not banking on it though.
Do let me know what you think about this data.
Was any of it surprising, and ultimately what do you think we should do?
Ditch Intel in favor of AMD, or stick with our currentCore i9-10900Ktest system?
