Unlike most of our CPU reviews, we actually had to run these gaming benchmarks under two scenarios. The first is the stock CPU performance with all 16 Core and 32 Threads enabled. However, the CPU offers a Legacy Support Mode, as many applications just haven’t got a clue what to do with a CPU this big. This mode turns off half of the CPU, giving us 8 Cores and 16 Threads, and that also means less heat, and hopefully the ability to maintain higher clock rates for longer using XFR and SenseMI.
AMD said “some” games will benefit from this, others will prefer having all of the CPU cores, and that seems to hold true. This isn’t a gaming CPU, it is basically a workstation CPU for the consumer market that can still game when you’re waiting to kick back and take some downtime. It performed reasonably well in games. However, the Legacy mode made almost no difference in Tomb Raider, improved performance a bit in Deus Ex, reduced performance in Ghost Recon, and improved it in Far Cry Primal. The results are mixed, but it can help. I’m looking forward to retesting with more games in a few months when software support catches up with the hardware that’s being released today.
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