Intel Meltdown and Specter fixes hampering Intel's gaming performance?

Disco_P · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:05

Hardware unboxed are using all the latest drivers, bios, windowz and application updates.

Techen · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:06

They used a 1080 on high not very high settings.

Benchmark is canned af

humbug · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:06

B1gbeard said:
I don’t think they are all part of the auto Windows updates.

Last i heard Linus Torvalds let the cat out of the bag Intel were arguing home PC users don't need these security fixes.

prjwebb · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:09

For comparison my 1600 @ 3.8ghz 3200c14 Ram with a 2025mhz 1080ti will do:

130.32fps average, 159.2 max for the Valley section of the ROTTR bench in DX12
110.29fps average, 165.38max, DX11

At 1080p High settings, FXAA.

hyperseven · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:18

humbug said:
Last i heard Linus Torvalds let the cat out of the bag Intel were arguing home PC users don't need these security fixes.

how does Windows 10 Pro know you are a home user?

chrcoluk · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:23

someone please copy and paste my posts on the review thread

I cant be bothered to retype all that stuff.

FloppyPoppy · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:23

TLDR : Humbug explain it to me later

humbug · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:29

harry5522 said:
TLDR : Humbug explain it to me later

Before or after Stellaris?

chrcoluk said:
someone please copy and paste my posts on the review thread I cant be bothered to retype all that stuff.

Make it a summery?

Raiden85 · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:31

ROTTR

Only have a 1080 Ti so that will have to be close enough. I used one of the cards.

1080p FXAA high settings. 8700k.

Fully patched BIOS and I'm running Windows 10 Spring Update 1803 (17133.1)

Anandtech is full of crap and needs to run all of the benchmarks again.

humbug · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:35

Radeon85 said:
ROTTR

Only have a 1080 Ti so that will have to be close enough. I used one of the cards.

1080p FXAA high settings. 8700k.

Fully patched BIOS and I'm running Windows 10 Spring Update 1803 (17133.1)

Anandtech is full of crap and needs to run all of the benchmarks again.

Mountain Peak? the slide says Valley. now i see how you got to your conclusions, i'll say it again, you're running a different benchmark.

Techen · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:35

30 fps difference between a 1700 and a 8700k.. hmm..

sideways14a · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:36

All very well saying anands data is crap but what settings are you running? Is your cpu stock, your memory stock???
Apples to apples..

Raiden85 · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:43

Not a fair comparison anyway as it's a 1080 Ti vs a 1080. I'm just benching my system as is so the only thing running faster than stock is the CPU which is 4.7ghz on all cores, RAM is 3ghz which is stock, GPU is a founders edition which is also stock.

Even at stock CPU speeds there's going to be little in it.

Gee · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:47

humbug said:
Mountain Peak? the slide says Valley. now i see how you got to your conclusions, i'll say it again, you're running a different benchmark.

It's the same benchmark I can guarantee you that.

humbug · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:48

Just out of my own interest in this.... the game is installed on a mechanical drive so ignore those minimums they are a symptom of mechanical drive load stutter.

Other than that i'm pretty much stock GTX 1070 bound in the this rather than overclocked Ryzen 1600.

prjwebb · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:53

humbug said:
Just out of my own interest in this.... the game is installed on a mechanical drive so ignore those minimums they are a symptom of mechanical drive load stutter.

Other than that i'm pretty much stock GTX 1070 bound in the this rather than overclocked Ryzen 1600.

Nice minimums

humbug · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:55

prjwebb said:
Nice minimums

Yeah i explained, mechanical drive..... its just because of slow loading from them.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 19 Apr 2018 at 18:59

A better CPU benchmark in ROTTR is to load the Remnant Village in the Geothermal Valley.

Thats the area I am talking about which I recorded during the test. I was testing that area to see the difference between DX11 and DX12. Its known to be very taxing on both GPUs and CPUs,and is the area Digital Foundry tests.

The in-game benchmark I don't find that reliable since over several runs it can show weird numbers.

gavinh87 · 19 Apr 2018 at 19:06

humbug said:
Yeah i explained, mechanical drive..... its just because of slow loading from them.

Doesn't a game load into ram before displaying on screen?

FloppyPoppy · 19 Apr 2018 at 19:06

"60% of the time my athlon is faster everytime"

I am still lacking the understanding of what this thread is about so im just contributing in my own way.