Great optimization there! How's the game btw?

IMO you are not praising Vulkan highly enough here. It is an open and portable standard, unlike d3d12 which is proprietary locked down crap. The fact that the developers implemented it alongside d3d12 and that it performs on par is awesome for those of us who doesn't use Windows. While this game has no Linux-port as far as I know, it would still run awesomely on Linux using compatibility layers like Proton or Wine. With Vulkan, it would have pretty much zero extra overhead since the graphics API doesn't have to be translated by the compatability layer. A shame it has Denuvo though, as it's rootkit-like functionallity often causes trouble for compatibility layers. Here's to hoping they remove that crap ASAP. Doom 2016 is a great example of how awesome compatibility layers can be when using Vulkan: [youtube=adQNMESdgO4]

fatboyslimerr:

Maybe it's just me but I thought DX12 and, to an extent, Vulcan were both able to leverage more cores and weren't just about those GHz. Less CPU overhead or at least more balanced CPU overhead or something like that. It would be more interesting to see these APIs tested on say a 1060, 1080, 570 and Vega 64 with say an FX 8300, Ryzen 5 and something like i7 2600 vs your standard test bench.

U do not really need CPU power for games, these are not that complicated tasks (like calculating proteins), U just need something to handle the graphic cards driver according to the performance it is capable of doing and then some for the AI and sound and engine

HOLY S***, look at the Fury X go at 4k. Even then 1080p, 1440p results are really good.

Agonist:

HOLY S***, look at the Fury X go at 4k. Even then 1080p, 1440p results are really good.

Good proof for 4GiB being enough despite seing higher memory usage on cards with >4GiB.

Raider0001:

U do not really need CPU power for games, these are not that complicated tasks (like calculating proteins), U just need something to handle the graphic cards driver according to the performance it is capable of doing and then some for the AI and sound and engine

Deferred render contexts for one thing. https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/gameworkslibrary/graphicssamples/d3d_samples/d3d11deferredcontextssample.htm For AMD I'm not too sure how that works at the moment, doesn't seem to be immediately doable but then again they do use multi-threaded rendering as well so, well I have a lot more to learn on the subject. 🙂 https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AGS_SDK/issues/20 I do know a lot of games create render threads though, Final Fantasy XV ideally wants a 6 core processor, Assassin's Creed Origins creates a whooping 8 of them and Monster Hunter World has some bug in it so it creates 32 unless restrained though that's not strictly just render threads from how I understand it. And it's improved or even part of DirectX 12 and Vulkan already without extras or other add-on bits though used well it should improve overall CPU usage but it's spread across more cores and games like AC:O don't scale down very well so it's 8 or nothing and thus quad cores see a bit of stuttering though hexa cores do alright in most situations though CPU usage is pretty high. (Though the game also spends a lot of resources on the WMI thread for some undetermined reason.) Though I suppose technically you would still be correct, it's less about power (clock speed.) and more about using the additional cores logical or physical for modern processors more fully though it doesn't hurt to have both especially with modern PC ports being a bit, wonky, and that's being generous for how some of them turned out ha ha. (Although a few are also genuinely demanding and push hardware to it's limits adding various enhancements in the process.) I suppose efficiency doesn't hurt either, depending on extensions and what type of instruction it is modern processors can be quite a bit faster but overall I guess a GPU limit is still the most common but CPU and RAM certainly helps too, sometimes surprisingly so. 😀

Good to see it released. Runs great too, but the price is a bit steep atm, will wait a bit unless I get a good deal. And I see they jumped on that bs dlc season pass too 🙁 About threading, their engine was never really optimized for multicore, although things changed since avp2010, nazi zombie army was a lot better. And from what I saw it's the same vibe now, nothing bad, but to hire same voice actor for story is a bit meh.. always reminds me of NZA series.

Guys the frame time and pacing plots have been updated. I made a mistake and used the improper data-set (totally stupid), that propagated into the plots. This has been updated and fixed now!

i have a feeling this is going to be the new ashes of benchularity ! great performance review HH !

This game is awesome, im having a lot of fun playing it!

BReal85:

I know it is an AMD supported title, but look at how AMD cards destroy the NV competitors: RX 580-GTX 1060, Vega 56-GTX 1070. Vega 56 even tops the 1080.

It's pretty funny how much it matters. But naturally Nvidia still claims the absolute crown with their top cards. I reckon the RTX cards would be quite tough as well.

Nvidia have async compute?

Lights and shadows looks soo much better than in ohyped RT Battlefield V...

GREGIX:

Lights and shadows looks soo much better than in ohyped RT Battlefield V...

Have to agree, even with Ray tracing in those videos it doesn't look revolutionary.

Keesberenburg:

Nvidia have async compute?

Yes on Pascal and later 🙂

GREGIX:

Lights and shadows looks soo much better than in ohyped RT Battlefield V...

You just say that, because you think RTX is too expensive 😉

Does the latest Nvidia mainline driver include all updates in the specific Vulkan dev drivers? PCgameshardware has also done tests. R9 280x and GTX 780 are there for Kepler and GCN 1.0. Their tests don't use reference cards however. http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Strange-Brigade-Spiel-61029/Specials/Benchmark-Test-Review-1263803/

The game looks rather fun imo. It's a setting that is fairly unique and different then most other games, so that's a big plus for me. Nice performance on a variety of more affordable GPUs too. 🙂

Agonist:

HOLY S***, look at the Fury X go at 4k. Even then 1080p, 1440p results are really good.

Look at the ancient 390X (aka 290X)!!!! And I doubt Guru3d has updated their FuryX/Nano Firmware to their April 2016 AMD official UEFI one. Which improves performance clock for clock and allows higher overclock also. (1190 for the FuryX).

Raider0001:

U do not really need CPU power for games, these are not that complicated tasks (like calculating proteins), U just need something to handle the graphic cards driver according to the performance it is capable of doing and then some for the AI and sound and engine

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