We Test a $1,000 CPU From 2010 vs. Ryzen 3

[wiyosaya]

8 years and intel only gives +40-50% overall fps improvements :O

You were expecting more from sIntel?

 

[Jyrkz]

Ahha would have hoped so

 

[JAmie71]

I bought this cpu in 2010 it cost me £700 ish at the time, the most Ive ever spent including my 1080ti

anyway I still have it, Installed on a Asus Sabertooth X58 with a AMD RX470 GPU running High Sierra (hackingtosh) with 24 gigs of DDR3 1600

Great Machine still does the job of Itching my apple Itch.

 

[theruck]

Finally techspot has found a CPU which can be beaten by the Ryzen. The sponsorship by AMD is so obvious on this site...

 

[Dimitrios]

Proof that old CPU's still game very well. Don't let INTEL brain wash you into thinking your 3+ year old CPU is instantly worthless and anemic. I'm cheap and old school and only buy a new CPU or build a whole new system when REALLY needed. Sadly the Phenom X4 965BE at 4.3GHZ has hit a limit with gaming which is FARCRY 5 with their SSE instruction set that old CPU's lack. I believe it's SSE4.2A or whatever. I will be building a Ryzen 5 soon.

 

[GeforcerFX]

Proof that old CPU's still game very well. Don't let INTEL brain wash you into thinking your 3+ year old CPU is instantly worthless and anemic. I'm cheap and old school and only buy a new CPU or build a whole new system when REALLY needed. Sadly the Phenom X4 965BE at 4.3GHZ has hit a limit with gaming which is FARCRY 5 with their SSE instruction set that old CPU's lack. I believe it's SSE4.2A or whatever. I will be building a Ryzen 5 soon.

It's SSE4.1, which wasn't added until the bulldozer series (which also got SSE4.2 support as well) SO depending on the board your using you can grab a FX 8 core on the cheap side now (new FX-8350 for $80 on newegg) and play far cry 5 until DRAM prices drop some more.

 

[Dimitrios]

It's SSE4.1, which wasn't added until the bulldozer series (which also got SSE4.2 support as well) SO depending on the board your using you can grab a FX 8 core on the cheap side now (new FX-8350 for $80 on newegg) and play far cry 5 until DRAM prices drop some more.

Can't I cheaped out and the board I have runs RIPJAWS RAM 8GB overclocked DDR2. Yes DDR2 lol. Most games run 30-60 FPS. I game on 1080p not real demanding. I heard I could use FX 4300 or whatever but sadly the Phenom in benchmarks keep up or beat the early FX chips lol!

 

[MaikuTech]

Can't I cheaped out and the board I have runs RIPJAWS RAM 8GB overclocked DDR2. Yes DDR2 lol. Most games run 30-60 FPS. I game on 1080p not real demanding. I heard I could use FX 4300 or whatever but sadly the Phenom in benchmarks keep up or beat the early FX chips lol!

I have to agree with you on some of that but indeed the FX4100 which is what I had a long time ago.
It does perform better and handle things more accurately then the phenom 2 x965 or its recent revision x4 965+
Sadly the FX4300 performs worse then the FX4100.

Makes the phenom 2 x4 955 look real good when FX4300 is sad and choking up to do simple tasks.
FX6100 was a real joke, the 1055T hexacore I had back in 2010 would run circles around it.
However the FX6300-50 actually out performed most am3 hexa-cores.

 

[GeforcerFX]

Can't I cheaped out and the board I have runs RIPJAWS RAM 8GB overclocked DDR2. Yes DDR2 lol. Most games run 30-60 FPS. I game on 1080p not real demanding. I heard I could use FX 4300 or whatever but sadly the Phenom in benchmarks keep up or beat the early FX chips lol!

ohh, what board are you running, I don't remember many AM3 boards with DDR2.

 

[Dimitrios]

ohh, what board are you running, I don't remember many AM3 boards with DDR2.

GA-MA785GM-US2H

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/GA-MA785GM-US2H-rev-33#ov

 

[drizzler]

Really, this is a very bad comparision, you used a bad overlock of the 980x.
Even not telling in detail how you managed the 4,4 overclock of the 980x is bad, cause
baseclock, uncore, ram timings and ram speed (to say , oh I am sorry but I have only 1600 ddr3 with not revealing the cl timings is just LOL for a serious comparison) are important to a X58 overclock and performance critical.
Would be the same to test a ryzen 6core with the worst suitable ram kit for it, with this you can slow down ryzen to about 1100 points in cinebench, but this would not be taken serious, right?
So go and do your homework !
Here are some numbers of a few of the benchmarks with an well optimized overlock @4,4GHZ
Cinebench :
MT 1055
ST 136
SisSandra Mem :
~ 29 GB
with about 32 GB read, 25 GB write and 35 GB copy reported due aida
Vray : 185 seconds
7zip : compression ~ 380000 decompression ~ 46000
Screens :
https://imgur.com/a/mZKeRK6
So what the hell ?

 

[loki1944]

It's nice to compare after so many years but the gaming tests caught my attention most. Ryzen 1600 isn't exactly battering an OC 980X here. Certainly if your use is gaming the case for holding onto a powerful platform for a long period while just upgrading the GPU a couple times is as good as ever.

GTX1080ti performance is an order of magnitude more than what was available from 2010, but the Gulftown still delivers the goods in a CPU bound 1080p, quite incredibly. I wonder what it might look like in 1440p or above.....would you even notice much!?

I had an i7 920 from 2008 that served first as a primary machine then relegated to other roles, After 8 years of hard use the motherboard failed. It still felt capable the day it died.

After a handful of GPU upgrades and passing to a young family member it went from beating up PS3 and X360 on games to beating up on an entirely new console gen, PS4 and Xbox One. So much for constantly blowing a fortune on upgrades every couple years to game on PC......

I have a slew of Bloomfield, Lynnfield, and a Gulftown CPUs; they are still great for modern pc gaming. Just pair up a 980Ti-1070Ti level card for High-Ultra 1080p gaming or a GTX 1060/RX 580 level card for medium 1080p gaming and you are good to go.