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 ESTTotal War: Warhammer
The last game in our lineup is Total War: Warhammer, a DX11 game that received official DX12 support a couple months after launch. While DX12 is still marked as beta, Warhammer was to some extent developed with DX12 in mind, with preview builds showcasing DX12 performance.
The built-in benchmark was used with Ultra settings without alterations.
While the DX12 render path was used for AMD cards, there appear to be some oddities with 1080p performance. As mentioned earlier, we'd like to use the best performing API for a given card; in this case, while there was improved performance at higher resolutions, we noticed a potential regression in 1080p performance. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we weren't able to investigate further; like Dawn of War III, it's possible Warhammer at 1080p was CPU-bound as well..
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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!