GPU Scaling, 8 Old Cores vs. 4 New Cores

00:00 - Welcome back to Harbor Unboxed
05:07 - Far Cry New Dawn
06:16 - Rainbow Six Siege
07:19 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider
08:37 - Gears Tactics
09:47 - World War Z
10:46 - Borderlands 3
11:42 - Average FPS Performance
12:14 - Final Thoughts

GPU Scaling, 8 Old Cores vs. 4 New Cores

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[DrearierSpider]

AMD has made more progress going from Ryzen 1000 to 3000 than Intel made in 6 years, from Sandy Bridge to Kaby Lake, even if you ignore the core count increases that Zen 2 has brought.

[Noah_]

I like the seperation and the names on the video timeline. "Welcome back to Harbor Unboxed". Love it. xD

[mixk]

Imagine if the next 8-core Ryzen had as low latency as the 3300X

[Carlton_Banks]

AMD did in 3 years what Intel took 6, impressive.

[Verpal]

I think we all know the result already, 8 core with poor IPC, poor Latency, multiple CCX, subpar memory support competing with a Zen 2 single CCX CPU.

Yeah, unfortunately you need to win a lottery to find 3300X close to its MSRP.

[vincenttrussart]

"Welcome back to harbor unboxed"

[Skylancer]

Made the best option. Waited for the 8700K to launch. 7700K was much slower and quad cores have a fair bit less life to them left while the 9900K was a drastic jump in cost to performance making it totally not worth it. Lucky timing.

[inkysteve]

The 3300x is cheap enough to replace it when more cores are needed without breaking the bank.

[FilipGavac]

Finally some very informative, sensible CPU/GPU benchmarks on youtube... Great to see exact limits of each CPUs and GPUs. Funny, that a lot of the times you won't get any benefit from 2080Ti over 2070S, or even 2060 if you game at 1080p. Also, very useful content for bundling the most appropriate components together. From now on, I would like to see this kind of comparison more often, f.e. with every new gen. of processors and graphic cards...like, at least some big in-depth charts. Thank you.

[takapoipoi]

its an honor to be one of the very 1st gen ryzen 7 owners. salute to legendaries.

[ruslannailevich]

"Because in 3 to 4 years time when you have access to 2080ti like performance at a reasonable price..." funny joke, Steve🤣

[EmTekTube]

The 3300X seems like a great deal on the surface if you can fine one! Put in an order for a 3300X through amazon at the beginning of May and its now the middle of July and still have heard no update on when it will ship :(

[andersjjensen]

I cannot stress how important any and all kinds of GPU scaling videos are! I know the combinatorial test matrix becomes ugly big rapidly so I absolutely applaud you for the tedious work.
I'm hoping for a 4700X vs the Comet Lake equivalent pitted against low, mid and high end Ampere and RDNA2 on 1080p, 1440p and 4k.... I can see why you'd only want to test against either medium or ultra, as that's easily 600 benchmark runs right there.. And I can certainly see why you'd want to give each resolution each own video!

[Targetlockon]

can't imagine how much performance we going forward if AMD keeps this trend until physics can't cut it anymore :)

[Lrd_f_War]

These GPU scaling benchmarks are the most consumer friendly of all. Thank you for such wonderful work Steve. Keep it up.

[EmirHaiqal]

Thanks for the review! Currently i'm considering to buy 3300X. You made it clear for me to choose 3300X over 1700 as my focus is only for gaming. Thank god 3300X is priced near to msrp here in my country

[liaminwales]

All the GPU scaling videos are still super good!
Relay helps put parts in context.

[tockar]

1700 is a better buy. Because you can't buy a 3300X.

[dabombinablemi]

I was looking to buy a secondhand 1700, looking at reviews however, and seeing that a 3600 (which at the time had the same price as the 2700X) was comparable multi threaded - and vastly superior single threaded...I decided not to go with Zen/Zen+.
Instead I waited another week after buying the motherboard and RAM to get the 3700X (which made some older games actually run consistently - unlike my 4.6GHz 4790K).

[FutureChaosTV]

This is why I skipped both options and just went for the R5 3600.
The 3300X hasn't been in stock here since its launch. And the 3600 was "just" 30€ more expensive at a different retailer.
I upgraded from a Phenom II X6 and couldn't be happier. 3-5x the performance. Absolutely crazy!