THE ALL AMD PC
First up, I need to make it clear this video is sponsored by Cyberpower PC and AMD, as we are going to be checking out this, the Ultra 9 Gaming PC that could very well be the ultimate all AMD System. Lets have a play with it and see!
Lets start with a tour of the system, starting with the graphics card. Like I said, this is AMD’s RX 6900XT, a behemoth of a card (that is somehow a pretty normal size?) and gives team green’s highest end card a run for its money. Especially in this reference card design, this thing looks mean, especially with that glowing red Radeon logo. I do really like the look. It’s also got standard power connectors in the regular spot, I didn’t think that’d be a selling point but hey, it is. And it manages to stay cool and quiet, even while gaming at 4K.
When you pair that with the Ryzen 9 5900X, well lets just say it’s a perfect match. You’ve got plenty of both CPU, and GPU performance to spare here as we’ll see in a second, but more importantly you get a few bonus features for going team red, namely a feature AMD calls “Smart Access Memory”, or “SAM”. This is based on the new “Re-Sizable BAR support” found in X570 and B550 motherboard’s BIOSes, and a whole load of software tweaks to get it to offer anywhere from 2-5% more performance, or in some games up to 10-15%. Basically, it lets the CPU have full access to the graphics card’s VRAM, its memory, rather than super small chunks at a time. Lets set up a monitor and have a play, shall we?
First up, I want to show you AMD’s GPU driver as it’s got some incredible features you’ll want to make use of if you get a system like this. First is “Rage mode”, it’s essentially AMD’s auto-overclocking mode that can help boost performance although you can also use their actual automatic overclocking option instead – or even automatic undervolting if you’d prefer.
There’s also Radeon Anti-Lag, something I tested when it first came out and had good results with, and Radeon Chill which helps reduce power consumption and heat output while affecting your gaming experience as little as possible.
Right, lets fire up a game. Why not start with the one literally everybody is talking about, Cyberpunk. Let me get it booted up and we’ll have a play. Interestingly this is one of the games that offers AMD’s FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening, or CAS. That’s a tool from AMD’s GPUOpen toolkit that does two things, first it lets you render frames at lower than your monitor’s resolution, then upscale them, and second it then sharpens the image so there is little quality loss. So, if you didn’t have all the raw horsepower in the world like I do here, you can set CAS up to either dynamically scale the render resolution to hit a target framerate, or just a fixed percentage, and get more FPS without a noticeable hit in visual quality.
Alright, enough Cyberpunk, lets try COD Modern Warfare instead.
So the GPU clearly has enough muscle to play any game you want, at any resolution, but what about the CPU? Well, that’s a 12 core, 24 thread beast with plenty of power to spare. Lets fire up Blender and you can see what I mean. This is the BMW test scene, I’m gonna hit render and you can see how quickly it blazes through it. On a mid range system, this would take upwards of 5 minutes to render, but on the 5900X? Under 2. Interestingly the BMW they are using there is a a 1 series, looks like the 1M actually, which reminds me, if you like car videos go check out my other channel, at the wheel where do basically what I do for tech but with cars! And as if by magic, the render is done. Mental.
