Videogames Battle: Ryzen 5 2600X vs Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-8400 vs Core i3-8100

People, sometimes, wonder what compilers are used in game development, since the game developers always try to squeeze every inch of performance out their engines. In reality, games don't really need any kind of special super-optimizing compiler. Games developers use different compilers, such as LLVM, Microsoft Visual Studio, ICC, etc.

On the other hand, every compiler take advantage of specific CPU features in different ways. This doesn’t mean that a specific compiler is biased. This means that a compiler has some advantage over a rival compiler in some field.

With this article, we want to see the behavior of Zen+ and Coffee Lake uArchs in old and recent video games, with and without uArch optimizations.

Test Configuration

All the configurations are Spectre and Meltdown protected.

The tests follow these rules:

• every test is repeated three times;
• if a test shows an anomalous result, we repeat the test until we discover the cause;
• the test rig includes just the operating system, the drivers and the software to benchmark;
• Intel rig has enabled the "Ultimate Performance Power Plan". Ryzen rig has enabled "Ryzen Balanced Power Plan".