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AMD has had quite a lot of success with its new Ryzen 7 processors but one area where the chip does let us down a bit is 1080p gaming. Earlier this month, AMD explained that this was simply due to the way games are currently optimised, adding that the situation would improve over time. Now, the first steps towards that direction have been taken as this week, Ashes of the Singularity received a patch to increase Ryzen desktop performance.
According to AMD's numbers, a Ryzen 7 1800X paired with DDR4 RAM running at 2933MHz saw a minimum increase of 26 percent when running the in-game benchmark with the high graphics preset. The boost rose to as high as 33 percent during some parts of the benchmark.
These performance boosts are the result of “initial optimisation”, which leaves the door open for further improvements in the future. In all, this patch is said to bring a 30 percent boost to performance on average when using a Ryzen 7 CPU.
Stardock and Oxide CEO, Brad Wardell, said in a statement that the “Ryzen processor has so much potential”, adding that the studio has already discovered new ways to take advantage of the additional cores and processing power.
The Risen 7 optimisation update for Ashes of the Singularity should be available via Steam already, so we will start to see additional performance numbers soon. Aside from that, we can expect more patches like this from developers in the future, as big names like Bethesda have signed on to support Ryzen going forward.
KitGuru Says: While Ashes of the Singularity is just one example of a game taking better advantage of Ryzen at 1080p, it's a good start. Hopefully we will start to see other developers follow this trend soon enough.
That’s a nice jump after a few weeks optimizing. Also should note Windows 10 March update recently improved performance in games as well. Haven’t seen any testing done on that but hopefully people compare performance from launch to now.
Yes looked at 2 sites so far toms hardware and PCPer. On toms they had only a 15% gain and also had Intel go up by 1 frame. On PCPER they had a 31% gain with 3200Mhz DDR4 and 22% with 2400mhz DDR4 and the Intel scores did not go up or down. So yep a nice gain just from the company taking the time to optimize the code to support Ryzen.
yep, none of the press really support the underdogs..they are all mostly paid off by intel PR to write close to biased reports…few sites on the other hand are unbiased..
that is the sad about all the tech sites….
for some reason all the titles for amd products will be soo lame sounding
wheras titles for intel will sound spectacular…sigh
cheers
I’d subtract the performance gain from having used higher frequency system RAM, there is a mention that Zen core performance is affected by RAM. Many Ryzen reviews didn’t use DDR4-2933.