… That's not normally cause for commotion at Digital Foundry HQ, but one line highlighted by wccftech caught our eye: "Improved CPU performance on physics calculations, eliminating a source of stutters, especially prominent in CPUs with high single-threaded performance, like Ryzen X3D chips." I think… …
… Weirdly, using FSR3 seems to incur additional CPU overhead, so it's worth considering a different upscaler if you're CPU-limited in this game. Apart from this, performance roughly doubles in CPU-limited 1080p testing from the 5600X to the 9950X3D. …
… Around 15GB of useable memory is available, with the user able to access all eight cores and 16 threads of the Zen 2 processor cluster. The full 36 compute unit GPU is also available. From boot, CPU clocks run at 3.2GHz with the GPU at 2.0GHz. …
… Let's start with CPU performance, which was a big worry for us going in based on the early previews. …
… In these heavy areas, the 50-60fps window drops back to maybe the late 30s upwards, and enraging city guards in Demeniss also hits the CPU hard - perhaps more so than Bug Hill. Put simply, the more entities in active play, the more CPU power you need. …
… It's a substantial upgrade over the murky low-grade art offered up for the last-gen versions, which had to contend with a mere 5GB of useable memory. …
… No more wobbles or micro-stutters. …
… This rapid release rate suggests that the game potentially named "Kingdom Come Salvation", according to trademark filings may not be a full mainline sequel - or at the very least, that the game would make good use of the existing tech and content pipelines that developers Warhorse Studios implement… …
… It's a very cool concept for a single device that could be used for work and play alike, speaking as someone that wrote an extremely long tech review on an Ayaneo handheld on a plane once. …
… NPCs retain full animation at range in the graphics mode, taking advantage of the stronger CPU, and water rendering uses the higher quality variant with more detailed ripple work. …