At the end of the last decade, Crysis it was the most wanted game at the time, to the extent that the PC could deliver Crysis was compatible with super power. Now that's new AMD Threadripper 3990X already on the road, they wanted to try it if only the CPU can run the game, without the need for a dedicated GPU, and the answer is yes, it does.
Last Friday AMD introduced the new beast, the Treadripper 3990X, to market. 64 cores and 128 threads of the process. Already at the weekend a few world-class CPU performance records on HWBot were achieved with this processor, but they also performed tests to see how much performance the 3990X could bring to the desktop PC.
Play Crysis with only CPU
Putting this processor for 4,000 euros on the road in the "home" market is unrealistic, really. It is an organized professional, especially those in need provide content (in fact, AMD sells it under this motto) very quickly. But it also allows for "humor" as we'll see later, but not before explaining it.
Games, by their very nature, involve a large number of very simple tasks performed every second, and we talk about the sequence of a million jobs per second. GPUs are specifically designed to be able to do this at Hardware level, especially since they have multiple Stream processors that can perform basic calculations at the same time.
By themselves, processors are designed to be capable handle the most complex tasks, and as a result they can't do too many at the same time. However, now comes the Threadripper 3990X with a thread of 128 processes (that is, it can perform up to 128 tasks at once, each with compatible computation) and breaks down all the programs.
In the video above you can see that they work with Crysis on a virtual machine (Jump to 9:12 minutes), which means that the graphics card included in the program only serves to display the screen image. Crysis is fully functional by software
It's certainly not that Crysis works on 4K and 60 FPS resolution (watching the video, when it goes to 20-25 FPS is already a success), but it works. The game ten years ago was PC power playback reference (In fact, many PCs today cannot run it at a good FPS rate) It now works only with a processor.
This fact, which is nothing more than a curiosity because it doesn't make sense to spend 4,000 euros on a processor (and the rest of the system) to just install Crysis without graphics, just shows the raw power of the new processor AMD, which can act as a graphics card when needed.
