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welcome back to harbor unbox today we're looking at a few different hardware configurations to see if certain matchups work better than others for example when AMD Rison cpus first came onto the scene back in early 2017 it was discovered that for a large amount of games these n based CPUs performed much better when paired with a radeon GPU opposed to a GeForce GPU of course the only problem with that being at the time the Radeon our X 480 was the fastest GPU aimed he had to offer and given that it was much slower than the geforce gtx 980ti and no one was using the radeon GPU for cpu testing fast forward to today and sadly the situation hasn't changed all that much Amy's new flagship GPU the Radeon 7 is only able to match 2017 s GTX nau TI making it much slower than the RT x 28 DTI also you can't currently buy one and that's been the situation for a few weeks now thankfully though we were provided a sample by AMD so we at least have one for a few tests before we get to that this video is brought to you by as rock and there's ed 390 Taichi ultimate motherboard this flagship quality board fully supports Intel's ninth gen eight core processors thanks to a 10 phase vrm design and you get a quantity at 10 gigabit per second Ethernet to learn more check out the links in the description below I thought it would be interesting to test out some new and popular games using the horizon 7 2700 X and core i7 8700 K pair each with the Radeon 7g force GTX 1080i and r-tx 2080 as all three GPUs provide a similar level of performance now the focus of this video isn't an AMD versus Intel CPU comparison we've done those many many times in the past it's also not a GPU comparison we've also done those many times in the past so basically the choice of CPU doesn't really matter that much I could have used a 2600 X or Core i5 8400 for example doesn't really matter not a cpu comparison rather what I'm interested in here is monitoring the performance margins does one CPU perform better with a particular GPU or is it now much of a muchness I should also note that I've done all my testing at forty or forty peers I wanted to target a more realistic gaming conditions again not a CPU test so benchmark at 1080p or lower isn't a priority then both the Intel and AMD platforms were tested with 16 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 cell 14 memory and any performance enhancement features were disabled just lastly all the benchmark data is fresh and it was gathered specifically for this video for the GeForce GPUs driver version for 1917 was used and for the Radeon 7 driver version nineteen point two point three was used okay let's get into the results starting with Assassin's Creed Odyssey we see the three GPUs are very evenly matched for the average framerate when testing with the 8700 K the radio and seven produces the best one percent low figure here it was 8 percent faster than the RT x 2080 moving over to the 2700 X and the one percent low margin does grow quite significantly here the radio and seven is 17 percent faster than the RT X 20 80 and 11 percent faster than the GTX 1080 Ti it's very interesting to see churring providing the lowest frame rates in this test the average frame rates are around 9% law with the AMD CPU if the Radeon seven for example saw the average frame rate dropped by 11 percent and in the 1 percent low by 9 percent the RT X 20 80 saw the average frame rate dropped by 8 percent but the 1 percent low dropped by 17 percent so it's quite clearly churring GPU isn't working that well with the rise in processor at least in this title anyway and we already know that assassin's creed Odyssey really isn't a good game this showcase verizon with still it's interesting to note the much weaker minimum frame rate performance with the RT x 2080 moving on to Apex legends here we're testing the same section of the multiplayer mode and taking an average from 3 separate runs basically though this isn't a very CPU demanding title at least when high-end CPUs are involved we see very similar results using either the 2,700 X or 87 or okay and the margins are also much the same so all looks well here the performance seen in battlefield 5 is pretty much what you'd expect to see the RTF 220 ATC is the biggest dip in the 1% low performance when going from the 87 decade of 2700 X but this time that can be attributed to the rise and cpu creating a system bottleneck in this game the same issue is seen when looking at the average frame rate on the Radeon seven so nothing unusual about these results again pretty much what you'd expect to see like apex legends Forza horizon for isn't a particularly CPU demanding game in fact we know this title will happily run on a modern dual-core such as the Athlon 200 GE still I included it just to check if there was any funny business going on turns out there isn't so let's move on now this is interesting when testing with fortnight we see that both the GTX tuner UCI and our GX 2080 provide better 1% low performance when paired with the horizon 720 700 X quite significantly in the case of the churring GPU this is in stark contrast to the Radeon 7 which was slightly slower for both the 1% low and average framerate when paired with the AMD CPU overall though the results were very similar with the exception of the 1% low for the r-tx 2080 we discovered very early on that hitman 2 seems to really hate the horizon processes which is a shame because the original Hitman series running with DirectX 12 worked rather well but for whatever reason we went a bit backwards with this second installment overall though the margins between the various GPUs remained much the same we're just down around 20% with the AMD processor performance in just cause fall looked pretty standard I have to say the 2700 X was slightly slower and this was seen with all three GPUs so not much else to report he really we also see a similar story when testing with Metro Exodus the higher clocked 87 ok has a slight performance advantage and this is true regardless of the GPU used the margins are also much the same with performance reductions around three to five percent as was the case when testing with fortnight we see that when testing with project cars to the GeForce GPUs have equivalent or slightly better 1% low performance when paired with the Eisen CPU while the opposite is true of the Radeon seven granted the margins are pretty small and I wouldn't read too much into them certainly nothing like what we saw with Assassin's Creed for example okay moving on to Resident Evil 2 and when I first ran the initial batch of tests with the rise in 720 700 X there seemed to be an issue with the 1% lower result so I reran them but I got the same 60-ish FPS moving on to the next GPU and I found much the same and in the end after an average of 3 runs for each configuration these are the results for whatever reason the rise in CPU suffered periods where the 1% low would drop down to around 60 fps meanwhile the 87 era came maintained over 90 FPS this meant the 87 era K was at least 54 % faster for the 1% low but just 13% faster for the average frame rate performance scaling in Rainbow six siege was pretty consistent across all tests at hardware configurations so not much to report here really both the 2,700 X and 8700 K allowed these GPUs to live a maximum performance or at least within a few frames of it in the case of the 2700 X surprisingly in the latest version of World of Tanks the Rison 727 hundred x was a whisker faster than the 87 or okay and this was seen for all three configurations the game has recently been updated to take advantage of multi-core processors and was designed with Rison in mind so this is a very promising result for AMD users overall it seems like we're seeing pretty balanced performance in 2019 nvidia appears to have improved driver compatibility with AMD processors and we're now seeing consistently strong framerate on horizon based cpus at least relative to an AMD GPU of similar capabilities the only real outlier here was Assassin's Creed Odyssey but as I said earlier the Assassin's Creed series have already been proven to run pretty poorly on AMD hardware and this is probably why AMD sponsored the latest installment allows them to work a bit more closely with the developer to address some of the performance related issues then as expected in tiles of aren't very CPU intensive titles such as apex legends Forza horizon for fortnight Metro Exodus and Just Cause for for example the performance margins between the 2700 X at 8700 K were very minor of course I was testing at 1440p which tends to be a little more GPU bound even with a GT X 1080 Ti class GPU but as I said this was more of a system benchmark opposed to an individual component test where we try to remove any bottlenecks that could limit the performance of the hardware that we're examining anyway it was good to see that overall performance margins were consistent across the various GPUs when using AMD and Intel processors and that is going to do it for this one if you enjoy the video be sure to the like button for us that's much appreciated and can subscribe for more content similar to this and if you appreciate the work we do at Hera box then consider supporting us on patreon you can get access to our exclusive discord chat monthly live streams with Tim and myself and yeah all that good stuff anyway wrapping this up thank you very much for watching I am your host Steve and I'll see you again next time