ALAN WAKE II | 21 CPUs Benchmarked [1080p, 1440p and 4K | CPU + Memory Scaling]

just the other day we published a video on alen Wake 2 and how we tested it on 32 different gpus from AMD and Nvidia well today is all about CPUs because being such an intensive game graphically we wanted to see how much of that is offloaded to the CPU and how much of a difference each CPU makes in terms of performance but before we get into that here's a quick word from this video sponsor oh mate you're all right yeah just got all the bits from my banging new gaming PC just got to put it together it's going to be so much better than yours oh right what did you get then the latest Intel 12 gem processor a feature patched motherboard and 32 gig of ddr4 memory see miles ahead of yours you you realize that board needs ddr5 memory don't you don't tell me you went and bought the wrong stuff ddr4 is so 2014 I can't believe you was that stupid what no you're joking what should I get then for me I'd be looking at corsair's new newest Vengeance ddr5 kits or if you're wanting that all important 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using ddr4 and and the am5 and z790 base systems both using ddr5 for our am4 system we use the gigabyte x570 s orus Master with 32 gig of Kingston Fury Renegade RGB 3600 MHz cl16 memory for our Intel test system we use the isus Rog Maximus Z 790 extreme motherboard while our am5 rig used the gigabyte x670 orus master and both systems were used with 32 gig of Team group tforce Delta RGB 7600 MHz CL 36 memory you also notice that each CPU utilize different speeds of memory as we spent quite a lot of time binning each CPU to see what the maximum speed each individual processor could do for those who are worried about us not using 6,000 MHz cl3 memory for our AMD testing we are actually working on some content putting the likes of this 7800x 3D through its Paces with slower and Tighter memory versus faster and looser memory so definitely make sure you check that out when it's released now for our graphics card and to rid the system of any GPU related bottlenecks we use the in3d RTX 490 I X3 with the GeForce 54592 driver and all of our testing was done on the latest version of Windows 11 and the latest respective Motherboard BIOS versions available so with that out of the way let's get into those glorious benchmarks starting things off with 1080p on low and set to FSR 2 native as there's well no way of disabling FSR or dlss fully it's here where the 7800 x3d from AMD sets the pace at 29 FPS with the 14900 k a small 2% margin behind Intel take up the next three places in the chart before AMD 7950 X fights back just edging ahead of the i54 600k which had to utilize slightly slower memory it's then a bit of a mixed battle between AMD and Intel with the 7950 x3d coming out at just 160 FPS and matching the performance of the 5800 x3d from last generation which is Then followed by the rest of the 5,000 series though performance on all processors are still going to lead to an in enjoyable gaming experience overall even on low moving up to 1440p where arguably the processor starts to become less important and AMD seemed to take over the top part of the chart again with a ryzen 7 7800 X 3D leading the pack at 162 FPS with other ryzen 7000 series CPUs sitting just a couple of FPS behind again the 7950 X 3D is the worst performing zen4 chip and sits just ahead of a wave of Intel processors of which the 12900 K 13700 k 14600 K and 13600 K all sit identically at 154 FPS though the other high-end chips like the I9 14900 K and 13900 K only come in 1 frame per second slower as we move down again the ryzen 5000 series sit at the bottom with the 5600 x coming in last at 134 FPS so not a million miles behind and again still perfectly playable then moving up to 4K where CPU performance is essentially taken out the equation and we find all processors sitting between 89 FPS like we see on the ryzen 7000 series including the 7950 X 7800x 3D and 7700x all the way down to the Verizon 5 5600x at the bottom at 82 FPS though what's most interesting is how the processors are grouped we find the 7,000 series all sitting in one group at the top while Intel sit in a group in the Middle with the bulk of them coming in at 87 frames per second and then the ryzen 5000 series just below that but again at such a high resolution we're less Reliant on the CPU now and more reliant on the GPU cranking the settings up to medium and looking at 1080p again the 7800 x3d is really able to Harish the potential of the game through its 3D vcash at 205 FPS the i 94900 k comes in 4% slower but still a healthy 197 FPS followed closely behind by the 13th gen equivalent and i71 14700 K until we move further down and see the ryzen 9 7950 X coming in at 192 FPS followed by the I 5 chips from both the 13th and 14th generation at around 190 frames per second then moving further down the ryzen 7000 series make up most of the middle part of our chart with the only exception being the 7950 x3d which really does seem to be struggling in this game even being beaten by the 5800 x3d from last generation up in the resolution to 1440p and all of the results fall much closer together again the 7800 x3d manages to claw another Victory even if only by a single frame per second over the rest of the 7,000 series stack our first Intel result is the i7 13700 K which comes in 4% slower than the top result and matching that of the 5800 x3d followed closely behind by the bulk of the Intel processors tested with one exception coming by the way of the I5 12600 K which now matches the performance of the ryzen 9 5900 X which sits second to last in our standings again as we move up to 4K the CPU is not as important as the RTX 490 is allowed to stretch its legs with most CPUs coming in within 2 frames per second of each other now as expected the 7800 x3d comes in top matching the 795x 7700x and 7600 and the majority of our Intel results sit in the middle of our chart again with the 12600 K just falling below though only by a couple of frames per second so nothing of significance then as expected the ryzen 5 5600x comes in last at 78 FPS though that only signifies 7% between the top and bottom results moving on to the high preset 1080P and again as we expect the 7800 x3d comes in on top at 194 frames per second which gives us a small 4% lead over the latest Intel Flagship 14900 K which now matches the performance of the ryzen 9 7950 X followed closely behind by a smattering of other Intel CPUs and the ryzen 77700 X as we move further down there's a bit of a mix bag between AMD and Intel as they battle it out though again disappointing results from the 7950 x3d making it just just not a great offering if this is the game you're looking to play 1440p sees all of the results falling within an 11% range of each other with a bulk of the results coming in around 131 FPS from the majority of the Intel stack again AMD lead the way with a 7800 x3d at the front and also with a 5600x towards the bottom so you could argue that AMD have something for all types of budgets that give respective performance to their price points well Intel is more of a stale offering that just sits awkwardly in the middle though there are a few ctions like the ryzen 95900 X which now sits at the bottom of our results at 4K there really isn't much in it with the majority of the processors offering Up Performance that is within 2 FPS of each other with the only exceptions that fall below that being most of the 5000 series and the 12600 K from Intel though even then it's only another 2 FPS lower so nothing of major concern again the 3D vcash 7800 x3d matches for the top spot and the majority of the Intel processors sit in a cluster towards the middle of the chart so at least you can say they're consistent moving on to Ray tracing where you could argue that a CPU has to work that little bit harder and for the first time at 1080p there really isn't much in it yes AMD still remain at the top but only by a margin of 3% which is still a win don't get me wrong but nothing to really shout from the rooftops about again Intel com in identically across the majority of the processors with a margin of error 1 FPS lower result from the I 914 900k and the 12600 K now performing the poorest below the 5600x from AMD 1440p is very much the same story though this time with no real outliers and all results sitting within a few frames per second of each other around 73 FPS there's a bit of a mixed bag here and really any slightly obscure results can be put down to margin of error though we do see the same patterns of the ryzen 7000 stack sitting at the top Intel below that and then the 5,000 series at the bottom a pattern that we've seen throughout our testing then as we move up to 4K with r tracing enabled no CPU here is going to give you what I'd call an enjoyable experience at just over 30 FPS because throughout my extensive CPU and GPU testing I just found that under 60 FPS and especially as you draw closer to 30 the game play in general just feels wibbly wobbly a bit jarring and just did lead to me feeling well a little bit queasy especially when turning fast a bit like when some people use VR for the first time though upscaling will fix this but will lead to some people just not liking the output that upscaling can give overall though to put some context on the results the 7800 X 3D matches the 13 600 k for the top Spot while the 12600 K just manages to take the bottom spot too with a single FPS variance between it and the 5600x from AMD and again we find Intel claiming the middle ground for the most part with obviously some exceptions now because it was a topic of contention on some of our last videos I did want to run some memory scaling just to see what differences if any we see on a few of the processors when using slower faster or tighter memory and it's here where there really isn't a huge amount in it at 1080p though we do we find that even on AMD which was the most contested point that the faster 7600 memory is the better to be had with a 4% margin when moving from 6,000 MHz cl30 memory to the faster 7600 MHz c36 memory there was less of a difference on the Intel I9 14900 K with the exception being 4800 MHz which did see a drop in overall frames per second and some odd results on the ryzen 7600 where the tighter timing memory actually performed worse than DDR 56000 CL 36 now at 1440p Intel again shows very little difference with just a single FPS difference on the I94 900k though I chalk that up as a margin of error and the same on the I5 13600 K separated by just a single FPS when moving to 4800 MHz memory the 7800 x3d saw the biggest difference with the 7600 MHz speed commanding a 4% increase in performance over 6,000 MHz cl30 memory and a larger 6% overrunning the same CPU with 4,800 MHz memory memory though the ryzen 57600 sees less of an improvement over 4800 MHz and match performance across 6,000 and 7600 MHz regardless of timings then as we move up to 4K the differences across the board are much more negligible we' only one or two frames per second separating the outputs though again we do see in the case of the 7800 x3d that the faster memory is the ticket to really squeeze out the extra performance though you could argue that the extra cost just isn't worth it overall lastly I just wanted to check out CPU scaling on the two Flagship gaming processors the i 94900 k and ryzen 77800 x3d to see how they react at kind of to the various settings and resolutions which shows to a degree how well optimized the game actually is on the ryzen 7 7800 x3d we do see especially at the lower resolution that the difference between low and medium really doesn't change all that much with a 2% difference at 1080p while that margin does increase to around 6% at both 1440p and 4K moving up to the high preset across the board sees drops in performance of around 5% of 1080p a larger 10% of 1440p and 13% of 4K so there are some steady drops in performance as we move up in presets while the higher resolution sees the largest differences as expected then looking at the 14900 k at 1080p we see drops of around 3 to 6% As you move up in quality presets which isn't a huge shoping performance for extra added visuals though the game does look stunning no matter the preset while 1440 P sees larger drops of between 5 and 10% as we cycle through from low to medium and then to high then as we look at 4K the drops in performance range between 6 to 12% which again isn't a huge amount and still ends up with a playable frame rate on our system though featuring an RTX 490 that's kind of expected regardless so as always a ton of data that we've gone through and I think it further instills my point that I made in our alen wake GPU video that the game is pretty well optimized we didn't see any sudden huge dips in performance as we move through the graphical presets though that's not to say that the game isn't extremely demanding because it is we ran all of our tests with an RTX 490 and the fastest consumer processes on the market and what's very plain to see is that if you're wanting to enable ra tracing then upscaling is well very much needed what we also found is that amd's 5000 series are starting to be pushed down quite dramatically while Intel for the most part seem to be holding up fairly well though moving from an old Intel CPU to maybe something newer and higher end didn't actually really make well much of a difference in terms of overall performance on top of that it's very evident that AMD is the better choice for this game as the 7800 x3d and other zen4 processors did top our charts consistently across multiple resolutions and quality presets though of course there are always exceptions like the 7950 x3d which I don't know just further shows that it's just a part that frankly isn't needed because while at the heart of it the 7950 X 3D is still a great chip for productivity the gaming side of things gets completely blown out the Water by the much cheaper 7800 x3d and if wanting a balance of gaming and productivity I think we've shown quite a few times before that Intel is the far superior Choice there it's also well a little bit actually quite a bit cheaper now don't get me wrong all processors did well and apart from ra tra turned on at 4K all CPUs manage 60 plus FPS and considering Alan Wake 2 isn't the fastest paced game in the world you could fall just below 60 and still have a decent experience though as said earlier as you're near to 30 you can really start to feel the difference and that's when it becomes a point where me personally I'd be dialing in either the quality settings or the resolution in exchange for some extra performance that really will make things feel a lot smoother overall now now when it comes to the technical stuff it's clear to see that Alan Wake 2 does like extra cash in terms of 3dv cach on the 7800 x3d but as mentioned that kind of fell short on the 7950 x3d and as per our memory scaling section the fact that the ryzen part wasn't able to utilize faster memory didn't really make much of a difference anyway the other thing that didn't really make much of a difference is core counts and clock speeds as we frequently saw Intel CPUs swapping places and if core count and clock speed was the big limiting factor then the i 94900 k or even the 14 700k would have been topping the Intel portion of our charts constantly while that wasn't the case with the Intel lineups huddled together for the most part in the middle of our results so I guess what I'm trying to say is if you're wanting to play Alan Wake 2 and be top of your game then the 7800 x3d is the CPU of choice while on Intel you really have a bit more of a choice as to where your hard-earned cash goes though I wouldn't put all your bets on just one game and instead look at overall performance across a multitude of games or factoring the other needs that you may have now in terms of am4 if you're still wanting to go down that route or are looking for a reasonably cheap upgrade path then the 5800 x3d is a bit of a no-brainer as it was constantly near the top of our am4 results with an exception here and there that could be deemed as margin of error but again the game does like 3D vcash and that's what helped it along in kind of those sets of tests now I'm under No Illusion that no one is going to buy a system based on one single game and nor would I advise you doing so and we will depending on how you guys like this video do more of these in the future as new games come out so let us know in the comments section if you want to see more CPU analysis type content across games just like this one for now yeah that's going to do it for this video if you liked it then a like and a sub to the channel would be amazing and if you love what we do then definitely look at joining the exclusive patreon members Club where you'll get access to all of our charts exclusive behind the scenes content bi-weekly game nights and much much more the link for all that great 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Length: 18min 5sec (1085 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 09 2023