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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ddriver - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link
More like "since nvidia castrates FP64 performance like razy" and "AT sure doesn't want to make nvidia look bad"...Manch - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link
and here we go with the shill comments....ZeDestructor - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link
AMD would look just as bad given they cut down FP64 just as much on modern cards.zoxo - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
fp32 works well for MD tasks, there is not much need for double precision atm.mapesdhs - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
If you need FP64, just stuff in some cheap, used GTX 580s. Or hunt for an original Titan or two. Actually, a Quadro 6000 is also a pretty decent buy for FP64.abrowne1993 - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
I imagine a lot of people are very happy to have something when the embargo lifts even if it's not complete yet.vanilla_gorilla - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Thank you for not making us wait for the whole thing, that's awesome.Xajel - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Take your time with it...On a Side note, I would love to see a revisit on the the current status of GPU's and iGPU's (&CPU's & APU) on the Media Centric usage scenario (like the old HTPC GPU roundup), but with increased modern media usage scenarios like for example streaming, 4K, x265, HEVC, Plex, transcoding, encoding, etc...
romrunning - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
6th para - "seceded" should be "ceded" - AMD basically yielded the high-market to Nvidia, not "withdraw" to Nvidia. :)Dr.Neale - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Hear, hear!Indeed, this needed to be noted.
Thank you for doing so!