The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright
by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on August 14, 2017 9:00 AM ESTDawn of War III
A Dawn of War game finally returns to our benchmark suite, with its predecessor last appearing in 2010. With Dawn of War III, Relic offers a demanding RTS with a built-in benchmark; however, the benchmark is still bugged, something noticed by Ian, as well as by other publications. The built-in benchmark for Dawn of War III collects frametime data for the loading screen before and black screen after the benchmark scene, rendering the calculated averages and minimum/maximums useless. While we used the benchmark scene for consistency, we used OCAT to collect the performance data instead. Ultra settings were used without alterations.
A note on the 1080p results: further testing revealed that Dawn of War III at 1080p was rather CPU-bound on our testbed, resulting in anomalous performance. Due to the extreme time constraints, we discovered and determined this very late in the process. For the sake of transparency, the graphs will remain as they were at the time of the original posting.
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Kratos86 - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
That is at 200 Watts, not $35. Anandtech, reporting on the world of tomorrow, without an edit button.mapesdhs - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
If/when AT finally does revamp the forums to enable editing, it's going to be a bigger forum headline splash than Threadripper. :D I'd post with typos just so I could delight at being able to edit it ten seconds later. 8)AndrewJacksonZA - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link
@Kratos86: You made me chuckle. :-)Lolimaster - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Proof of stake is almost here, Ethereum is basically done unless you get the gpu's for free, else you don't have much more than 4 months for ROI.Notmyusualid - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Thats right. Ethereum was the only crypto-coin out there.Fool.
Ryan Smith - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
As a heads up, this article is very much not done, as Nate and I had to rush to cover everything in 3 days. The performance data is up there, along with bits and pieces on the architecture.I have probably another 5000 words on the architecture left to draft and revise, and I hope to get that added in the next couple of days.
In the meantime I apologize for the state of things, and we're continuing to work on the article to wrap things up.
FireSnake - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Take your time ... we will wait :)rtho782 - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Ha, understandable, and I'd much rather have this than nothing :) Your unfinished reviews are generally more indepth than most places complete reviews.Hows the GTX960 review coming tho? :P
ddriver - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
No longer doing folding at double precision?Ryan Smith - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Since no one has shipped a consumer GPU with FP64 performance better than 1/16 in a few years now, there's not much of a need for a FP64 benchmark.