You're relying on a reading from RivaTuner and calling other people names, come on man you're above this. This bickering is silly. There's clearly something going on, and it's not GPU-side. Normally if I were going blind I'd blame AMD's middleware (because if there's something I don't trust it's AMD and software and you add up Bethesda + AMD and you have a recipe for utter disaster), but I'm just glad the game doesn't crash all the time (for me, at least). It is a good thing we're in 2023 and we have advanced CPU-level profiling available to the level that any moderately computer literate fellow can load a profiler and check it out:
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This data was taken in the Jemison spaceport area while just running around and looking at the scenery. If what Intel VTune Profiler says is accurate, then the situation described by
@Vayra86 is exactly what is occurring:
These figures plus what we know about the game logic itself completely negates any benefit of X3D - corroborated by reviewers having the exact same performance or minimally better on regular non-X3D Ryzen models. Look at the super high figures of bad speculation and front-end bound, most of our hardware's resources is simply wasted here, at least on Raptor Lake. Looks nasty to the point that disabling the E-cores or at least lassoing them out might turn out to be a rather good idea if you're aiming at maximizing hardware utilization figures. I might actually try that.
