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hey Ron this is Steve from gamers Nexus Donna and this benchmark is looking at elite dangerous which is another space simulator game and it's bit different than star citizen in scope but was actually backed by chris Roberts who is of course the chairman and CEO of cloud Imperium games the developers behind star citizen so it has their endorsement and the difference here is that elite dangerous is done it is out it's complete and really that's that's that its final yes it's still being iterated upon but I'm like star citizen it is available for play now star citizen still in development for at least another year maybe two or more so elite dangerous I already published the benchmark course if you're interested in that you can see the course that I took when benchmarking the game and sort of look at the graphics it looks pretty good I played it at 1440 and even 4k when benchmarking but of course the heart of it is at 1080 so in terms of graphics there's nothing crazy here it's not like some of the other recent games where there are all of these new technologies or Nvidia or AMD competing technologies there's not any game work stuff being pushed it elite dangerous it's pretty straightforward in that really the bulk of the graphics are the HUD and things like Space Station's do draw on the GPU a bit but that's because it's just rendering a lot of polygons and not necessarily because of any new FX or special effects at 1080p the game plays really on just about anything I tested it from a 250 X scaling up to 980 the 980 ran it at 160 FPS which shows you that even on a 35 70 K there's really not much of a CPU bottleneck which sits that's good news and the 290x plays it at about 140 fps 780 113 so all is well in the terms of these cards it does struggle on a 250 X I would probably not recommend playing it on max settings on a 250 X but you could drop the settings quite a bit this this was run on max so you could drop them down to low and you'll be fairly okay on a 250 AD I would really recommend upgrading though for this instance moving on I ran the benchmark with DSR and VSR which are dynamic super resolution by and and I believe virtual super-resolution by Andy and the two technologies are very similar in scope in that they simulate a 4k or 1440p display so although there's a filtration process the component of the card that does the scaling friend but for AMD excuse me the scalar component is removed from the graphics pipeline that means that it is not impacting the framerate output in this filtration process so your performance it will be almost identical to the hit you would find using an actual 1440 or 4k display despite the extra filtration added in on top of it because it is removed from the pipeline at 1440 p vs r and d sr the 980 drops down to a hundred fps you remember it was 160 on 1080 and the 285 drops to 56 fps to 90 X to 85 so it is definitely playable at 1440 with these cards you would not want to go below a 285 or a 780 for the most part if you're playing at 1440 if you have a higher resolution display 3k or 4k in that range the only things I could test with this for the 285 and 980 because AMD's VSR is only available up to 4k on the 285 everything else is limited to 1800 HP which would be 32 by 18 and the 980 is the only one powerful enough to run 4k so I just didn't even bother testing the others in this instance the 980 s sort of slightly playable at 4k but you're definitely gonna hit some spikes that are very noticeable in gameplay as I did especially when flying around space stations and getting into really intense combat so you probably would want something a bit more powerful or a multi GPU setup if we're being realistic that's ultimately what you would need to drive 4k @ a consistently playable fps so that's all for this benchmark please let me know what you think about elite dangerous because I honestly have not had much of a chance to play it I've just been benchmarking so I'm curious to hear your thoughts you can comment below but the best way to get in touch with us these days is tweet at us at gamers Nexus on Twitter and I will reply dear to each of you send them so please subscribe if you like this content follow us both of those helped a lot and I will see you all next time have a great holiday peace you