Originally Posted by Leo99
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
The old benchmark used to be Crysis, but I'm sure that's been long usurped by something even more demanding. Typically, flight sims, as others noted, are on the light end of the demand scale with heavy detail FPS games being on the other.
I read a few months ago that Crysis is still a very demanding game at max settings even with modern hardware.
IIRC, Crysis doesn't really use beyond 2 cores... newer games are better, but throwing a Threadripper 3990x, coming in with 64 cores/128threads(!!!), at it isn't going to dramatically improve performance.
That being said... Linus Tech Tips got their hands on a 3990x, and fired up Crysis on it. Using ONLY the CPU to render the entire game, no GPU at all resulted in a, albeit barely, playable experience, which is incredible.