About a month ago I decided to switch from a Ryzen 7 5000X to a 5800X3D CPU which is a model with an extra layer of cache. Many games benefit from that greatly, but I did not find any benchmarks using TSW specifically. So I did some FPS comparison tests myself and I thought it might be useful to people considering a CPU upgrade and wondering if it's worth to stick with the AM4 architecture. Rest of the specs: 2x16 GB RAM DDR4 3600 MHz NVMe PCIE 4.0 SSD GeForce 3070 Ti B550 Mini-ITX motherboard Game settings: basically everything at Ultra, 3440x1440 resolution, 100% scaling, no .ini tweaks. Methodology - every test case was done at least 2 times, all FPS values below are the average values from their respective test case. I used Riva Statistics Server for FPS measurement. Also, at the time of testing, the 5800X was undervolted and had subtle power limits applied, while the 5800X3D was running with pretty much default settings. Kassel-Würzburg - ICE 585 Lubeck-Munchen - start at Kassel and go until about 70 km left to Fulda 5800X / 5800X3D AVG FPS: 94 FPS / 105 FPS (+11,7%) MAX FPS: 145 FPS / 164 FPS (+13,1%) London Commuter - London Victoria, spawn on foot at rush hour (3 PM) and do nothing for a few minutes 5800X / 5800X3D AVG FPS: 51 FPS / 67 FPS (+31,4%) MAX FPS: 58 FPS / 78 FPS (+34,5%) London Commuter - London Victoria - Gatwick Airport (Class 387 GX) - take passengers, then depart at notch 2 until SPAD 5800X / 5800X3D AVG FPS: 60 FPS / 84 FPS (+40,0%) MAX FPS: 86 FPS / 124 FPS (+44,2%) As you can see, the CPU replacement gave me quite a significant FPS boost especially where there is a lot of passengers and AI traffic. Sadly I noted no improvement in terms of stuttering - the 1% and 0.1% lowest FPS was about the same. That remains up to DTG to improve someday. That's it, I hope it will be useful someone Cheers!
I totally agree. For the price the 5890x3D really is a remarkable gaming chip. There is nothing better on the market from either stable, it’s that simple. FWIW on TSC it has taken a game that was always heavily single thread dependent and limited and removed that limitation entirely. My game is now entirely GPU limited which is something I never thought I’d see.
Sure the stuttering is still here because it's a core problem of the game which will never be resolved :/
I'm that idiot who spent £350 on a 5800X to be immediately backstabbed by AMD. Having seen this I'm buying a 5800X3D to give my AM4 platform one final push. Apparently 7800X3D has frame pacing issues which really put me off from upgrading to AM5. Update: Just installed 5800X3D today, all I can say is HOLY COW! Sitting in a cab at Dresden Hbf was like 40FPS before, now it's butter smooth at 80-90FPS
