Published: May 30, 2017 | Source: OC3D Internal testing | Author: Mark Campbell

Rise of the Tomb Raider update – Has AMD Performance Ryzen?

It may be the middle of Computex, but that shouldn’t get in the way of some good auld hardware testing. Square Enix has today releasedÂ title update 12 for Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC, bringing with it come performance improvements for Ryzen-based systems when using the game’s newer DirectX 12 code path.Â

This update begs an obvious question, how much does this change the game’s performance? This article will provide you with the answer to this question, as thanks to ASUS and CorsairÂ ourÂ gaming boffin now has some Ryzen hardware to test future game releases.Â

Will this new update cause AMD’s performance to rise up? Let’s find out.Â

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GPU Driver

We will be testing this game using our GTX 1080 Founders Edition, using Nvidia’s newest GPU driver at the time of writing, driver version 382.33.Â

Test Hardware

We will be conducting our performance testing using ASUS’ Crosshair VI Hero motherboard alongside AMD’s Ryzen 7 1700X CPU. Here we will be using Corsair’s Vengeance LED 3200MHz DDR4 memory on this test bed and use the same timings of 16-18-18-36 on ASUS’ AGESA 1.0.0.6 Beta BIOS releases (BIOS version 9945). Â

In this test, we will be using our Ryzen 7 1700X with a 4GHz overclock, so expect even larger performance gains when using a lower clocked or stock CPU.Â

AMD Ryzen Game Test Rig
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X @ 4.0GHz
ASUS X370 Crosshair VI Hero
Corsair Vengeance LED 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz
Corsair 460X System Chassis
Corsair RMi650
Corsair H115i
Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition
Windows 10 x64 “Creators Update”

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