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by Dr. Ian Cutress on July 20, 2020 1:30 PM ESTGaming Tests: Strange Brigade
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt, and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen, who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark as an on-rails experience through the game. For quality, the game offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. Strange Brigade supports Vulkan and DX12, and so we test on both.
- 720p Low
- 1440p Low
- 4K Low
- 1080p Ultra
The automation for Strange Brigade is one of the easiest in our suite – the settings and quality can be changed by pre-prepared .ini files, and the benchmark is called via the command line. The output includes all the frame time data.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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ballsystemlord - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
@Ian, I love your 30,000 datapoints per article. Thanks for benching all these things.The AMD Phenom II 1090T (the original consumer 6 core!!!) is the CPU I'd like to see in the new suite.
Samus - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
Can you build an automated (filtering/categorizing) submission form for donations. I have many Xeon’s, especially the v3’s you have a shortage of, that I would be willing to donate for the cause.ballsystemlord - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
@ian @Samus Use email to contact each other.Dragonsteel - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
I'd like to see comparisons for the mainstream 300$ to 400$ CPUs starting with the i7 series.I'd really like to see i72600k on those benchmarks. Both stock and OC performance. I do run this CPU, bit am looking at upgrading soon to a comparable model. It just hasn't made sense until now with the new platform updates and more powerful GPUs.
Slaps - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
Would it be possible to add Counter-Strike Global Offensive? You can use the in-game console to load a demo (replay) of a professional match and let it run to get very real and consistent results.ET - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
What an amazing project. Great and detailed article, too. I'm looking forward to seeing the results. I appreciate Bench, and often when I see someone on Reddit ask about an upgrade from, say, a Phenom II 1055T to FX 6120, I go to Bench to make a comparison (though of course can't often find the exact models).Hopefully the UI for Bench will be improved. Search and auto-completion, comparing more than 2 CPUs, these are things I'd expect.
DanNeely - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
y-cruncher sprint graphs are missing.137ben - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
This is an ambitious project, and it is the reason I enjoy coming to Anandtech.ozzuneoj86 - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - link
This is amazing work! Thank you for doing this!One suggestion though... and I've mentioned this in past comments... please please please rename the lowest of the four quality settings for gaming benchmarks. The "IGP" setting is unnecessarily confusing to those looking at CPU benchmarks being run on a top of the line GPU. No IGP is involved. Just call it " VERY LOW" or something.
Meteor2 - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Yes x1000!(What does IGP even stand for in this context?!)