AMD Ryzen Processors Get Performance Increase in Rise of the Tomb Raider

If you play Rise of the Tomb Raider by Crystal Dynamics and use an AMD Ryzen processor you’ll be getting a nice performance increase with the latest version of the game that is already out on Steam. Starting with game version 770.1 there is a patch that boosts performance for 1080p gaming significantly.

Testing done by AMD and posted on the AMD Community Forums show that they were seeing performance gains of roughly 28 percent! Testing was conducted on an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X processor with an ASUS Crosshair VI motherboard, GeFoce GTX 1080 video card and 3200MHz DDR4 memory running Windows 10 build 1607.

Rise of the Tomb Raider splits rendering tasks to run on different threads, Crystal Dynamics said. By tuning the size of those tasks breaking some up, allowing multicore CPUs to contribute in more cases, and combining some others, to reduce overheads in the scheduler the game can more efficiently exploit extra threads on the host CPU.

Crystal Dynamics also found a way to reduce GPU driver overhead, saying: An optimization was identified in texture management that improves the combination of AMD CPU and NVIDIA GPU. Overhead was reduced by packing texture descriptor uploads into larger chunks.

ROTR version 770.1 is already available on Steam right now and you can roll back and forth between updates to do some comparative testing of your own!

AMD also noted that ZBrush performance has improved just slightly. They wen’t from 22.5 seconds in one workload to just 11 milliseconds, which is an incredible performance improvement that almost sounds too good to be true. In some operations ZBrush now performed a stunning 204,772 percent faster than before the ZBrush version 4R8 was released for AMD Ryzen processors.

Great news for creators and it just goes to show that software products are still being optimized for the Zen architecture by developers with the help of AMD!