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Resident Evil Village + RTX 3080 + X58 Performance Analysis

Resident Evil Village + RTX 3080 + X58 Performance Analysis

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Introduction


Capcom has recently released their highly anticipated title, Resident Evil: Village. The game follows the Resident Evil 7 story arc and also follows the popular gameplay elements from RE 7. These elements focuses around the first person perspective along with supernatural sci-fi like experiences. Capcom also brings elements from their older games such as Resident Evil 4. RE Village has strong RE4 references such as the merchant and a shop for buying & upgrading weapons. Capcom is once again taking Resident Evil in another direction due to RE7 huge success.

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X58 CPU Performance + RTX 3080

X58 CPU Performance + RTX 3080 + PCIe 2.0



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Introduction

Once again I am benchmarking my reliable Intel X58 platform that was released in 2008. My last three articles featured the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 in 2020 \ 2021 and the Nvidia RTX 3080. In the previous RTX 3080 review I included the GPU Usage to show how much of the GPU was being utilized. The results had shown that the X58 was still more than capable of playing games at high resolutions (4K). The previous article definitely revealed some bottlenecking, but exactly how much bottlenecking; that is what this article will attempt to answer.

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Vega 64 2021 + X58 Review - Kana's FineWine Edition

Vega 64 2021 + X58 Review
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Since I have not been able to get my hands on a RTX 3000 or Radeon 6000 series GPU I have decided to write another article on the RX Vega 64. This article will be a bit different than my previous article from last year. The first difference being that I have finally decided to try out the “YouTube Review Thing”, as I call it. So this article will be accompanied with my “YouTube Review” video for the RX Vega 64. The second is that I am covering several titles that I didn’t benchmark in the previous article along with a few more hardware related twists.

I have overclocked my old and trusty Intel X58 to 4.6Ghz with tighter DDR-1600Mhz RAM timings; the previous article ran 4Ghz with normal DDR3-1600 RAM timings (9-9-9-24). I have also overclocked the Vega 64 “HBM” (VRAM Memory Timings) to 1100Mhz, up from 945Mhz, which was very easy to accomplish and should give a few more percentages and performance. The 3 year old RX Vega 64 pulls a lot of wattage and getting the core clock to lock to a specific clock isn’t the easiest thing to do, due to how AMD developed the Vega architecture, so I am just leaving the core at stock for now. I am also running AMD latest drivers for my Vega 64, Radeon Adrenaline 20.12.1 [December 8th 2020]. Later in this article I speak about the RX Vega 64 price before and after my previous 2020 review.

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X58 + RTX 3080 Review

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Introduction


In early May 2020 Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, was seen standing in his kitchen while cooking. From that point he pulled something from his oven. The “dish” he revealed from his oven contained Nvidia’s next generation architecture, Ampere and the A100 GPU. A few days later Jensen Huang properly introduced the groundbreaking A100, yes from his actual kitchen, and from that point gamers waited patiently for Nvidia’s next GPU reveal based on the Ampere architecture.

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Vega 64 2020 + X58 Review - Kana's FineWine Edition

Vega 64 2020 + X58 Review
Kana's FineWine Edition

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Update: 1-9-2021: 
RX Vega 64 2021 Article


Update: 7-21-2020: 
Price and Performance Comparison against RTX 2070\2060S - RX 5700 XT - GTX 1080\1080 Ti



Introduction


I finally got my hands on a decently priced RX Vega 64 LC to replace my R9 Fury X. I already knew that another "FineWine" review article was coming the moment I started playing a few games. It took a while to finish everything, but I have benched the Radeon RX Vega 64 LC against 18 different games at multiple resolutions. This article includes roughly 64 individual benchmarks. Although it was time consuming I believe it was worth it. My review is somewhat unique due to running my 12 years old Intel X58 platform which only has a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot for the Vega 64 in 2020. This review will give people more insight into how well both of them perform together. As usual feel free to leave your comments at the end of the article.

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