Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
by mikepurvis on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:29PM
(#24721499)
It depends. I threw together an HTPC a few months ago out of mostly second-hand parts and it's been a mixed bag. With an i5-4460 and an RX 570, I can run modern shooters perfectly, but a bunch of indie games give me unexpected trouble. Hades for example (isometric roguelite heavy on visual effects) still gives me lots of slowdowns and framedrops, and I even get jitter and issues on some really old titles that I would have expected to be butter-smooth, like Sonic Generations.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
by overcast on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:20PM
(#24724060)
The RX 570 is definitely a budget level GPU, an upgrade to that would certainly give you what you need to run those games on an I5 properly.
Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
by mikepurvis on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:33PM
(#24725501)
Sure it's a budget card, but I don't think it's the issue, because I got great performance on COD WWII (2017) when I tried it at 1080p on high settings.
Additionally, the games listed as problematic ran great on a Dell laptop equipped with an 8th-gen i7 and a GTX 1050 mobile. At least, they ran great for like a minute or two until the thermal throttling kicked in. So given that my HTPC build does have issues, and it has a slightly better GPU and much worse processor, I'm inclined to think the processor is the problem.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's much point trying to get a better processor than that for the old LGA 1150 board, when I could spend only slightly more cash on some DDR4 RAM, a B450 motherboard, and maybe an older Ryzen to be upgraded to one of these Zen 3 ones in a few years when prices have dropped.