Greg Salazar – Ryzen 9 vs. Minecraft TNT [IT WORKED]

I like to play minecraft okay i’m not ashamed of  it my wife makes fun of me but it’s a fun game and   in this video we’re going to experiment a bit so  i am interested to see just how far i can push my  

5950x and i don’t even remember what card this is  thing is rtx 3070 how the specs in the description   want to check out exactly what my personal  rig is running this by the way is the same  

System that i used to edit with uh to stream with  like i’m doing now and play games so i am in a   mega planes biome and i’ve set it up to look  like a super flat world at the surface but  

We’re actually standing on y63 so you need to go  all the way down to bedrock kind of how you would   a traditional minecraft generated world uh so in  that sense our tnt is going to be able to interact  

Beautifully with the terrain and that’s the  point we’re going to be detonating tnt in varying   amounts to see how those figures to the left  of the screen there um yeah fluctuate so we’re   getting 5950x we’ve got 16 cores all listed out  we’ve got system ram at the bottom along with the  

Frame rate we’ve got the gpu usage at the very  top and rtx 3070 and then we have a gpu memory   just under that i will be mapping frame rates  using fraps and they’ll be checking frame time  

Uh fluctuations while the tnt is being detonated  so we should see a pretty huge spike in frame   times when we detonate the tnt and then once we  finish up with the detonation then the frame rate   should uh should increase or the frame time  should decrease remember they are inversely  

Proportional there so there you go one tnt being  detonated but uh we’re going to be detonating   a lot more than that i think you’ll enjoy this fun  little experiment stay with me be sure to check   out team group t-force extreme argb modules for  your next pc build they look fan freaking tastic  

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Like a minecraft youtuber now anyway for our first  experiment we’re gonna run a three by three block   detonation pattern here and i’m just gonna  manually fill this in i know i could run a  

Fill command but uh probably just if we could do  it this way and i think what we’re going to be   doing and we want to stand back far enough to make  sure that we get the entire explosion in the shot  

And whatever tnt goes flying left or right who  knows time set noon there we go sometimes like   i brain for when it comes to minecraft  stuff okay here we go um yeah detonating now oh yeah right so if you were watching the bottom  left you can see that frame rate dip pretty hard  

Now i wasn’t logging frame times at that point  we’re just running a little test here just to   show you what to expect and you can see we are not  in a super flat world obviously this world has a  

Depth you could dig all the way down to y1 or y0  whichever one they call it for bedrock and uh yeah   that was the point right so the tnt can interact  a bit more to be a bit more representative of uh  

What you might run into in your minecraft world  so with that we’re gonna begin logging now keep   in mind i’m gonna be streaming this entire thing  i’m not gonna be live streaming it but i am  

Encoding while i’m doing all of this so there is  a bit of uh cpu being leveraged in that case i’m   using the x264 encoder because it’s a 5950x why  not i could be using the new invic encoder but  

I’d like to keep the gpu unsaturated just in  case it’s needed for some of these animations   and minecraft is it’s a bit finicky the game  really doesn’t like utilizing more than a few   cores and threads and that’s been the case for  quite a long time i’m using the java edition by  

The way not the bedrock edition so that might  change depending on the version you are using   uh but same goes for the graphics card it’s  very difficult to fully saturate any modern   graphics card in minecraft unless you’re running  something like a gt710 i’m sure you could probably  

Bottle like that but something like an rtx 37  you wouldn’t expect vanilla minecraft to really   bottleneck and what it really comes down to in  today’s optimization the game just doesn’t know   how to fully utilize hardware like this at its  disposal again just to demonstrate one more time  

Watch gpu usage at the top left no change okay so even a lot of the animations in  minecraft i mean the graphics card is not going to   be stressed to that extent now maybe if we put  a 10 by 10 by 10 cube of tnt alright i’m sure  

At that point we’d start seeing the gpu usage uh  start to spike but even even then i don’t expect   it to hit 100 if it does i mean that’s that’s  going to be a big change from what i was used to  

Back in 2017-2018 when i was uh last running this  so we’re gonna start with a three by three cube   and i’m going to log with fraps i could be logging  with msi after burner i have to have after burner  

Up anyway so you can see the uh the stats here  on the left side of the screen so i’m not really   sure why i’m using fraps but anyway we’re going to  run some redstone over here we don’t want to get  

Too far back and i’m going to hit ctrl alt b so  fraps is now logging whoops all right here we go so that was interesting so i actually noticed  the gpu usage went down if you watch in slow  

Motion here on the top left um yeah usage went  down just before the explosion and then while   the explosion was happening it didn’t really go  back up not until the animations were pretty much   finished with and that’s not something you  would normally expect to see uh in a game  

That’s as popular as minecraft in 2021. now this  here is a site to behold we are standing on a   by five by five cube of tnt and it is is it wait  is that five it’s five by four what am i doing  

I am an idiot and at this point i should be  using fill commands because it’s taking quite   a while but anyway there there we go okay five  by five by five and we’re gonna pretty much do  

The exact same thing we just did i don’t think  we need to stand too far back to see the uh   the explosion for the most part obviously  a few tnt blocks are gonna be like getting  

Launched way off to the left and right but we’ll  be able to see most of the action from about here   we’re going to hit ctrl alt b and we’re  going to run the simulation here we go well that is something this here  is 27 blocks of tnt detonated  

And this here is what five times five times  five that’s uh one 125 blocks of tnt detonated   it’s a pretty pretty big difference now it’s  time to kick things up a step further okay i  

Think i typed this in correctly yes all right now  we’re talking so this here folks is a 10 by 10   by 10 massive cube of tnt so time for i probably  shouldn’t know this is close to that craters  

I did you know what whatever screw it we’re  gonna run the redstone probably have to get a bit   further back for this one so i think i’m gonna use  a repeater and uh we will yep bring it maybe back  

To here okay now we’re gonna hit ctrl alt b that’s  just the default keybind i use for recording   frame times by the way and we’re gonna flip the  weather the leather lever little lever here we go oh my that frame rate was abysmal but  if you noticed again top left corner  

Gpu usage was yeah pretty much stuck at around  20 to 30 percent so for quick reference again   this is a single block of tnt here being detonated  this over here is a three by three by three cube   of tnt being detonated this right here kind  of blended into the next explosion but this  

Is 125 blocks of tnt being detonated  all at once and this mega cluster here   is 1 000 blocks of tnt being detonated wow  but you know what we’re not stopping there   it’s time for the piece that resistance i think  we can do sorry my french viewers i know it’s  

Probably crunchy we’re going to do 50 by 50 by 50  blocks of tnt i think that is doable i think it is   let’s see i’m going to try the fill command again  we are at 339 give me a second here oh yes okay so  

This isn’t quite 50 blocks but it is a 30 by 30  by 30 cube of them and i yeah i think this is a   big step up from the 10 by 10 by 10 i thought that  was big but this is freaking colossal and uh yeah  

We’re just going to set up the redstone same way  we did before probably have to pull a bit further   back for this one and i imagine this explosion  as a whole is gonna take much longer to play  

Out okay something like that should work i think  we’re far back enough to at least get um well most   of the picture oh the crater’s gonna be enormous  though and uh drop the lever we’re gonna get our  

Yeah we’re gonna get our frame time counter going  let’s pull the lever oh this isn’t gonna be good yeah okay we we might be here a while 2 000  years later how you guys doing um we’re gonna  

Start measuring this in seconds per frame because  right now our fps is literally one probably gonna   go to zero this is this is definitely zero um  we might yeah i don’t know if i should just let  

This play out or not i guess i should but right  now in my camera angle everything’s being all   shifted because i’ve been hit by tnt i said i  just stood too close to it um i’m not sure if  

This is going to be a fair representation of  a 30 by 30 by 30 with respect to the other   cubes that we’ve exploded but um i mean it’s  pretty trash i think it’s safe to say we we broke  

The game this is this is interesting we’re getting  explosions all around us but we can’t see the tnt   which i think is helping our performance overall  um things are definitely still exploding yep yep   so we can’t see the tnt but stuff’s exploding so  that’s that’s interesting i wonder how much longer  

This is going to go on i’m going to go ahead and  stop the frame time counter i mean at this point   we’ve pretty much gone through the bulk of the  explosion anyway we saw the frame rate dipped to  

Zero that was pretty much what i wanted to get  across here 30 by 30 by 30 is definitely a hard   limit and this crater just keeps getting larger oh  i think we’re i think we’re done now i think okay  

All right yeah um this this is a this is an  enormous creator at this point i’m gonna compile   all the data i need to set things up so that the  the graphs are presentable they’re palatable for  

Uh for my audience and you’re not going to be  interested in seeing just a bunch of frame times   essentially in milliseconds in a large list so i’m  going to compile all those kind of uh put together  

Like a line chart so to speak so we can see frame  time change over time and remember in this case   frame time is the inverse of frames per second so  it’s one over second for fps but then seconds over  

Frames is a frame time so the higher the frame  time value the worse performance you’ll get   overall and all right here we are we’ve got the  frame time in milliseconds remember there’s a   thousand milliseconds in every second  so if you wanted to do the inverse of  

57.151 for example which was the max frame  time uh during the first run which was just   with a single block of tnt give me a second let  me get my calculator going to be 1 divided by

One five .057151 i think my decimal place is  in the correct spot so there you go 17.5 ish   frames per second that was the lowest fps we  measured when we detonated a single block of   tnt right so that that’s basically the inverse  of this and you calculate it just by taking the  

Inverse of 1 divided by the frame time just  make sure you get your decimal place right   because it has to be in seconds because we  measure fps of course in seconds that’s what   fps stands for now for the 27 block detonation  i really didn’t see this one coming ready for it  

Check that out 47.088 milliseconds that was  the peak frame time we measured during that   detonation which involved mind you 26 more tnt  blocks than the previous one you can see though   that our minimum frame rate was actually much  much higher uh really if we calculated this  

It’s a 10 millisecond difference there let me  get my trusty calculator comes out to 21.24 ish   frames per second so that’s about four fps higher  than the single tnt block detonation that’s right   we’re talking about minimum fps here so um yeah  interesting now notice that the frame time spike  

Dragged out a bit more here right so this lasted  quite a bit longer that’s because you have the   other tnt blocks to detonate not just a single one  we detonated the first time i still didn’t expect  

This frame time to be lower than the single tnt  detonation all right now we’re moving on to the   1 000 block scenario this is what we’ve got so  far and this is what we’re working with now now  

I kept the y axis the same just so you could get  a sense of sheer scale here but if we adjust the   y-axis you can see that our peak frame time was  roughly 100 milliseconds 1 divided by 0.0991666

And yeah that’s a whopping 10 fps you can see  it dragged out quite a long time by the way   uh you’ve got so many so many more tnt blocks  to detonate essentially which is why this never   really returned to that uh pretty stable low frame  time that the first two scenarios encountered and  

Now we’ve got the enchilada folks remember the 27  000 tnt block detonation scenario it did not play   out too well in real time and this here is the  new graph inserted without an adjusted y-axis so  

I mean you can see it goes it goes way up here  way off the chart but how much higher well   you’re going to want to strap in for this one  way up here 12 785 86 milliseconds um we could  

Measure that in seconds folks so actually if you  move that decimal place three places to the left   that’ll give you seconds and it took almost 13  seconds to render the slowest frame yeah remember   when i said we can measure in seconds per frame  instead of frames per second well there you go  

It took 13 seconds or thereabouts to render a  single frame so it’s spf instead of fps i mean   the sheer difference here is just baffling i mean  you can’t even see peaks you this looks all flat   down here these other three scenarios look like  totally straight flat lines along the x-axis and  

Then you’ve got this just enormous enormous jump  that’s just that’s just insane let’s go ahead and   calculate what this would actually be though in  fps that’s going to be 1 divided by let’s see 12 12.785731 even though these small decimal  places don’t really matter and they give us a  

Whopping .078 frames per second after an entire  second of waiting on this frame to render we   weren’t even a tenth of the way through it being  rendered that’s how heavy of a hit minecraft took  

On our 5950x rig that is just awful but at the  same time it’s pretty freaking cool i mean look   how much damage we did like there’s just there’s  nothing left here we must have dropped down let’s  

See how far we dropped down here we are literally  about 25 blocks down just from detonating that tnt   on the surface it’s freaking nuts and so as the  sun sets on a day of experimenting i think um it’s  

A job well done i think we satisfied our morbid  curiosity it is thundering outside what the heck   and hopefully you had a bit of fun in this one  i i like being able to like integrate games   into some of our testing methodology just being  able to see in real time what’s happening with  

Cpu and gpu usage and what’s happening ultimately  with frame rate as well which is one of the uh   most coveted metrics among us gamers so if you  enjoyed this little video you should let me know  

Give this one a thumbs up i would appreciate that  i’m just kidding i’m not gonna do it i’m not gonna   do an outro like this i’m not i’m not a minecraft  youtuber although that would be pretty cool real  

Though if you enjoyed the video be sure to let  me know that feedback is super valuable and look   i’m just kind of they’re just throwing stuff at  the wall trying to see what sticks at this point   it’s difficult to really get enthusiastic about a  pc build uh seeing as though graphics card prices  

Are still disastrous and prices don’t seem to  be getting all that much better in fact they   probably will get worse soon based on some of  the news i’ve been i’ve been hearing so that’s um  

That that’s that’s not good and i’m trying to tie  you guys over try to keep you entertained as best   i can of course our cleaning series and our fix  series are are still healthy they’re still doing  

Well we’re going to keep those up but you know  when you want to experiment a bit try other things   um it’s always important to get feedback from yard  and so that’s why i’m asking you for uh for that  

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