PGL UPGRADE TOURNAMENT PCS FOR EU RMR

PGL has announced changes to tournament CPUs for the European RMR, swapping out the 2020 AMD Ryzen 5950X for the more recent 2022 5800x3D. In terms of GPU, the computers will still run on Nvidia RTX 4080 16GB graphic cards.

While not the absolute top-of-the-line, the new CPU is a gaming-specific chip with AMD's 3D V-cache — a feature particularly useful in CS2 — and should address some of the concerns from players who were struggling with frame rate early on in the tournament. It can also be plugged into the same motherboards as the 5950X, and paired with the same RAM.

Gamers Nexus' October 14 benchmark tests for CS2 put the 5800x3D sixth for average frame rate at 455.5 per second, a good deal behind its 7800x3D successor at a whopping 573.4 and the Intel i9-13900K at 510.2.

Regarding the bottom 1% percentile performance, however, the 5800x3D jumped to second place at 270.1 FPS, outperforming the Intel and non-3D AMD chips above it on the overall average as it doesn't dip as low and helps with stability.

The situation should also be helped by Valve releasing an update on February 16 which included "various performance improvements," after the February 7 Arms Race update affected frame rate negatively.

When contacted, PGL told HLTV that this was a "temporary fix for Europe ," and did not comment on the rig specifications for the Americas or Asia RMRs, which will be held in Monterrey and Shanghai, respectively.