Gaming Benchmarks

Okay so time for some gaming results and this is where it comes unstuck for AMD. As I've talked about in the past, Intel's low latency Ring Bus is simply better suited for gaming and we run across this when comparison their ain Mesh interconnect architecture designed for high core count CPUs. The Infinity Fabric suffers the same problem and it'due south not until gaming CPUs require way more cores that this problem will go away for AMD.

And so while the 2600X improves on the 1600X past an 8% margin in Ashes of the Singularity, information technology'due south even so a whopping eleven% slower than the 8700K. The fact that Intel CPUs clock much higher blows this margin out past over xx% at times.

Moving to Assassin'south Creed Origins, we meet a mere 2% increase for the 2600X over the 1600X while the 8700K is a farther 14% faster.

The margin is slightly reduced with the high quality preset only notwithstanding the 8700K is 12% faster than the 2600X when comparing the boilerplate frame rate.

When testing with Battlefield 1 using the ultra quality preset we see that the 2600X is 9% faster than the 1600X but still seven% slower than the 8700K.

That margin is completely diddled out with the medium quality preset as the GTX 1080 Ti is able to stretch its legs a little more than. Here the 2600X again offered a nine% performance increase over the 1600X but information technology now 10% slower than the 8700K which notwithstanding appears GPU express.

It's a like story when testing with Far Cry where the 2600X is 10% faster than the 1600X, which is a huge improvement, merely even so it'southward still viii% slower than the 8700K.