Gaming Tests: Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Deus Ex is a franchise with a wide level of popularity. Despite the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (DEMD) version being released in 2016, it has often been heralded as a game that taxes the CPU. It uses the Dawn Engine to create a very complex first-person action game with science-fiction based weapons and interfaces. The game combines first-person, stealth, and role-playing elements, with the game set in Prague, dealing with themes of transhumanism, conspiracy theories, and a cyberpunk future. The game allows the player to select their own path (stealth, gun-toting maniac) and offers multiple solutions to its puzzles.

DEMD has an in-game benchmark, an on-rails look around an environment showcasing some of the game’s most stunning effects, such as lighting, texturing, and others. Even in 2020, it’s still an impressive graphical showcase when everything is jumped up to the max. For this title, we are testing the following resolutions:

  • 600p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1080p Max

The benchmark runs for about 90 seconds. We do as many runs within 10 minutes per resolution/setting combination, and then take averages and percentiles.

AnandTech Low Resolution
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Medium Resolution
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High Resolution
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Medium Resolution
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Average FPS
95th Percentile

All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.

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  • Fulljack - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link

    yeah, just bought an AMD Ryzen 7 4750G with much faster Vega 8 graphics than paltry Xe-LP 32 EU that is barely enough for 720p gaming.
  • vanish1 - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link

    Ryzen 4000 APUs are not available for purchase through retail, only OEMs
  • rUmX - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link

    You're fucking stupid.
  • jospoortvliet - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link

    That are available in about a week. https://www.anandtech.com/show/9793/best-cpus
  • vanish1 - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link

    Woof a Zen 2 based APU that costs currently $637 on Newegg, ouch.

    Also, youre missing the point. Instead of overspending and wasting money to game, put the cash towards other parts of the system then focus on gaming when GPU prices return to normal.
  • Prosthetic Head - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link

    The past called, they want their processors back!

    But seriously, it is sad to see back ports on to older processes with (relatively) awful performance / Watt. Talking of which, can anyone point me to a recent power / performance analysis of current CPUs?
  • Prosthetic Head - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link

    e.g. sum up the area under these traces from the handbreak test to see the total energy used to do the same job: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16495/Power-HB.p...
  • Bigos - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link

    Thanks for Factorio test results. I am looking forward to the Bench DB being filled.

    Could you share more about the save you are using for the test? Is it a big factory (a "mega base") or something smaller? Is it mostly bot or belt focused? Are trains being used?
  • wr3zzz - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link

    Handbrake seems to scale better with additional cores on Rocket Lake than on Zen3. Why is that?
  • 29a - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link

    I had a Zen+ CPU and Handbrake had trouble utilizing all of the cores

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