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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: Red Dead Redemption 2
It’s great to have another Rockstar benchmark in the mix, and the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) on the PC gives us a chance to do that. Building on the success of the original RDR, the second incarnation came to Steam in December 2019 having been released on consoles first. The PC version takes the open-world cowboy genre into the start of the modern age, with a wide array of impressive graphics and features that are eerily close to reality.
For RDR2, Rockstar kept the same benchmark philosophy as with Grand Theft Auto V, with the benchmark consisting of several cut scenes with different weather and lighting effects, with a final scene focusing on an on-rails environment, only this time with mugging a shop leading to a shootout on horseback before riding over a bridge into the great unknown. Luckily most of the command line options from GTA V are present here, and the game also supports resolution scaling. We have the following tests:
- 384p Minimum, 1440p Minimum, 8K Minimum, 1080p Max
For that 8K setting, I originally thought I had the settings file at 4K and 1.0x scaling, but it was actually set at 2.0x giving that 8K. For the sake of it, I decided to keep the 8K settings.
For our results, we run through each resolution and setting configuration for a minimum of 10 minutes, before averaging and parsing 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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zodiacfml - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
whut?! They were late buying the EUV equipment to save money, too much focus on profitability which will kill Intel slowly overtime.PandaBear - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Yup, TSMC bought about 50% of all ASML output for the next couple years while Intel only bought 5%. RIP Intel, you got what you deserve and you are going to be the next Motorola.Threska - Monday, November 16, 2020 - link
Like it says in the article AMD almost folded in 2015, and people were writing articles about it's demise. Seems no one has learned anything about predicting the future from that experience. The world needs competition. It doesn't need an AMD monopoly, nor an Intel one, and with good fortune RISC-V and maybe other competitors will come on the scene so we don't keep repeating the history of "Oh they're dying, and I'm rooting for it".Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Keep on wishing, friendJasonovich - Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - link
Hardly likely, TSMC is the bigger fish, has almost twice the capita as Intel.vais - Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - link
Luckily there are anti-monopoly laws ;)Threska - Monday, November 16, 2020 - link
Let's see how the whole ARM acquisition by Nvidia shakes out before we all start quoting monopoly laws.Kurosaki - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
RIP Anandtech, these reviews makes it hard to come in without error 504 or the site c crashingcatavalon21 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
No issues here. Site's working fine.ballsystemlord - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Same here.