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It’s been twelve years since Crytek released its legendary first-person shooter, but the endearing meme that Crysis spawned remains relevant to this day – and not just for comedic purposes, it seems.
AMD released its Ryzen Threadripper 3990X last week to positive reception, but despite all of the rave reviews, an age-old question lingered: could the 64-core beast run Crysis? Linus Tech Tips was one of the few who accepted that challenge, and what he found was somewhat surprising.
It turns out that AMD’s multi-core monster can not only run Crysis, but it can do so without a discrete GPU. Yes, that’s right: the level of computing performance in the 3990X is high enough for the game to be rendered entirely in software.
This is pretty impressive, since CPUs are built for serial processing and rarely...
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But really otherwise.. wow! Though Linus did have some good points about being limited to 256gb of ram. It really did deserve a 2 TB limit to make it a bad *** workstation to rival the best Intel could offer. (Some real workstation tasks need that kind of ram.)