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by Dr. Ian Cutress, Andrei Frumusanu & Gavin Bonshor on November 25, 2019 9:05 AM ESTGaming: Strange Brigade (DX12, Vulkan)
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 which 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. AMD has boasted previously that Strange Brigade is part of its Vulkan API implementation offering scalability for AMD multi-graphics card configurations.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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niva - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
If that's how you feel just go to another website, why even bother posting here?stux - Monday, November 25, 2019 - link
I must admit I’m saddened by the lack of compiler benchmarks. Who cares about gaming benchmarks on a workstation processor.Meanwhile actually benchmarks which may affect serious purchasers are missing
ABR - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Another vote for compilation. Ability to take advantage of more cores is a complex equation depending on caching, i/o, and memory access, so it would be informative to see some comparisons done.Lux88 - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Another vote for compilation. Should be relatively easily scriptlable too. Linux kernel compiles under half a minute, but Chromium or Firefox should still be big enough. Additionally there's .NET, could be an interesting data point.GreenReaper - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
PostgreSQL database work? It can parallelize quite nicely now, especially with PG12.PeachNCream - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Yup, one more +1 for compiler benchmarks and for the lack of relevance of gaming benchmarks.peevee - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Agree. Compiler, CADs etc must be here, games and self-made tests and useless PI calculators should not.Supercell99 - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Would like to see how it runs some VMware ESXi loads as well.cosecant - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Another vote for compilation, go or c++, as well as database tests, CAD of some kind, and virtualization (bonus points for docker or Kubernetes as well)... however... please don’t remove all the gaming benchmarks... I might be in the minority, but I like to be able to game or work on the same machine...Supercell99 - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link
Yea more HEDT testing applicable. Gaming on this chip is not the intent.