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AMD's Threadripper 3990X ($4,000 CPU) can run Crysis with no GPU needed

Earvin Infinity

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This is it. This is where the $5,000 gaming PC myth comes from! It's all true.

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Threadripper 3990X review roundup: AMD’s 64-core CPU can play Crysis, but it’s not for everyone

The first reviews of AMD's insane 64-core Threadripper 3990X show a CPU that's in a performance class by itself, but it's not for everyone, and it has some distinct limitations as well.
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But can it run Crysis?! Glad you asked. Besides showing the chip easily ripping through rendering tests, Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips shows the CPU is actually capable of running Crysis. And no, we don't mean running Crysis on a GPU in the system with Threadripper 3990X, we mean, actually running Crysis rendered in software mode ON THE CPU. It's an amazing feat worth watching.
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FYI this isn't the game running on some form of iGPU like many might assume. This is the game running entirely in software what that means is the CPU cores are doing the GPU calculations.
 
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Dennis8K

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What settings tho?

Crysis is a game that only should be played with all max settings. And on Delta difficulty.

Crysis Delta: 11/10

Crysis Delta > Your favorite game
 
Teiresias

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This was basicaly Ken Kutaragi's wish for CELL and PS3 wasn't it? Well, insomuch that the CPU and GPU would be the same architecture wise.
 

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3 years ago if someone said that AMD would have the best HEDT processor by a country mile I would have laughed by ass of and called in the mental institutions.
 
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So hyped for the Ryzen 4000. Hope that the 4700X will have the same price as the 3700X.

Amd doing so many things right now.
 

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But can it run Cyberpunk 2077?

Lol!

Seriously though, that's an impressive feat - but I would like to know what settings Crysis is being run at. To be truly impressive, it would have to be at all max settings.
 
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Teiresias said:
This was basicaly Ken Kutaragi's wish for CELL and PS3 wasn't it? Well, insomuch that the CPU and GPU would be the same architecture wise.
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This is just making me wish we could have gotten the Kutaragi PS4 and PS5 instead of the Cerny versions. And that's no disrespect to Cerny, I just don't care for the PS4 from a hardware perspective.
 
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3950X is still best for general performance though. Also don't try using Windows server on one of these monsters Microsoft charges Windows server licenses by the core.
 

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Bomblord said:
3950X is still best for general performance though. Also don't try using Windows server on one of these monsters Microsoft charges Windows server licenses by the core.
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Yeah, but they don't charge much from my experience. At least it's cost me less to buy server licenses for 2019 than previous versions. The minimum you can buy is 16 cores at once (even if your server has less than that) and that is costing me half as much as I used to pay.
 
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Well it doesn't seem it is using all cores when running Crysis in software mode, probably you would get the same result on a 3950x
 
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severianb said:
Yeah, but they don't charge much from my experience. At least it's cost me less to buy server licenses for 2019 than previous versions. The minimum you can buy is 16 cores at once (even if your server has less than that) and that is costing me half as much as I used to pay.
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Scaling based on known 32 core licenses (Microsoft won't give direct pricing on core counts that high without calling) it would could around $7000 for 64 cores standard license or nearly $20,000 for a data center license.
 
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