The only problem was that the Radeon RX 480 was the fastest GPU AMD had to offer.
Fast forward to today and the situation hasn’t changed all that much.
It’s not astraight GPUcomparison either, we’ve also done plenty of those.
The choice of CPU isn’t even all that relevant.
We could have used the 2600X and i5-8400, for example, since it’s not a CPU comparison.
Rather what we’re most interested in here is monitoring performance margins, not outright performance.
Does one CPU perform better with a particular GPU, or are we simply gone mad about benchmarking?
If only for fun’s sake, here we go.
All testing was conducted at 1440p as we wanted to target more realistic gaming conditions.
Since it’s not a CPU test, benchmarking at 1080p or lower is not a priority.
All the benchmark data is fresh and was gathered specifically for this feature.
For the GeForce GPUs driver version 419.17 was used and for the Radeon VII driver version 19.2.3.
Here it was 8% faster than the RTX 2080.
Interesting to see Turing providing the lowest frame rates in this test.
This isn’t a CPU demanding game, at least when high-end CPUs are involved.
The performance seen in Battlefield V is pretty much what you’d expect to see.
The same issue is seen when looking at the average frame rate of the Radeon VII.
Like Apex Legends,Forza Horizon 4isn’t a particularly CPU demanding game.
In fact, we know this title will run happily on a modern dual-core such as the Athlon 200GE.
Overall though the results are similar, with the exception of the 1% low of the RTX 2080.
We discovered early on that Hitman 2 hates Ryzen processors.
We see a similar story when testing with Metro Exodus.
The higher clocked 8700K has a slight performance edge and this is true regardless of the GPU used.
The margins are also the same with performance reductions around 3-5%.
Granted the margins are small and we wouldn’t read too much into it.
So far nothing has come close to what we saw with Assassin’s Creed.
Performance scaling in Rainbow Six Siege was consistent across all tested hardware configurations.
Bottom Line
Overall we’re seeing pretty balanced performance in 2019.
