Gadgetory

hey Ron this is steve from gamers nexus net and what you're looking at is the benchmark results video for our recent Star Wars Battlefront open beta benchmark test so we have another video on the channel already showcasing the games really quite impressive graphics at maximum settings with a 4k resolution using high-end 980 TI that video is already up if you want to see the benchmark course we use see the game's graphics capabilities and listen to me talk about our test methodology and very brief form then go check out that video for this one this accompanies the article linked in the description below which explores the performance of the video cards at various resolutions from 4k 214 42 1080 and we also look at ultra high and medium graphic settings and how they impact the various devices on bench do note that some of our AMD devices are now getting a bit aged to like the 290x and 285 they are technically last generation but we do have a 390 X on hand and we're able to test that with these benches for an explanation of the games settings check the article links in the description below I talk about what each of them does what it means but here's a few screenshots of the game settings as they stand in the open beta and as for performance let's just start looking at that right now so first of all here's the 4k chart as always big disclaimer this game is in beta that means that there will be maps there will be assets vehicles game modes to which we are not presently exposed so FPS could change when the full game comes out and those items are launched alongside it they could be more intensive they could be less intensive we'll just have to revisit it once the games out back to the charts 4k you can see that basically sli 980 is are required to get 60 FPS so if you want 60 FPS which for a fast paced shooter like battlefront you probably do want as close to that as possible if not more then it is going to require some kind of multi-gpu set up either crossfire or sli even the high-end seahawk 980 TI which is a liquid-cooled card with a boost of 1291 megahertz stock we're still sitting dead at 44 FPS it certainly wasn't a bad experience but as the game sort of hits the dips where explosions and things like that occur you do see that card struggle to a point where I would probably want to drop down to 1440 if I were gaming with it and here are those 1440 charts so again the sli 980 TI combo quite obviously at the top and for good reason it's two video cards that's at about 120 FPS average but has pretty bad lows at 66 FPS for one percent and 55 FPS for 0.1 percent now in comparison to the other cards these don't look that bad but when you compare against the average which is what you want to do there's a large 2x disparity between the average with sli and the lows whereas the other cards have pretty tight timings and that disparity we've seen it before it's just it happens with multi-gpu setups and the gap being that large means that the dips and frames will be more noticeable as a player so although the one percent in 0.1 percent those are still effectively 60 FPS which is what we want the size of the dip from 117 to those numbers is noticeable one plane so you get a bit of stuttering or tearing or some other perceived and negative impact resultant of this the single GTX 980 TI the MSI Seahawk pushes 83 FPS average and that's definitely playable and it retains it really tight timings for one percent and 0.1 percent blows another plus for the card the r9 390 ex again performs pretty impressively well with battlefront and that's because this game as we learn throughout the process of this benchmark seems to be fairly optimized so the 390 X gets about 70 FPS at 1440 ultra and at four hundred dollars that's a very competitive by for battlefront matched up against something like the GTX 970 currently three hundred twenty dollars and that would be about your cutoff the 970 can just barely handle 1440 at Ultra you would probably realistically be dropping a few of the settings down too high just to make sure you're retaining a high baseline during the dips when gameplay gets intense and obviously again this cutoff point is a little bit dangerous if you're buying a card right now because we haven't seen the rest of the game yet so we don't know how that will change going forward but I will certainly update this guide with a new video once once we're at that point 1080 the one that most people probably want to see here shows the most populated chart and it ranges all the way down to the GTX 770 r9 285 and gtx 960 in terms of playable cards the r9 270x a former mainstay which has been replaced by the r7 370 in effect it's not a perfect replacement but it's about that and the GTX 950 both of those cards are all three of those if you include the r7 370 struggle to retain ultra at 1080p the gtx 960 4 gigabyte card did not yield noteworthy gains over the 2 gigabyte alternative when we tested on this map this resolution these settings we have seen games were 4 gigabytes impacts performance and have a complete video on that just search the channel 4 4 gigabytes vs. 2 gigabytes and you'll find that but for this game didn't really see an impact I did look at vram consumption it wasn't scientific it wasn't complete we are doing both of those things for vram consumption analysis very soon but for a brief top level sort of thrown together analysis we saw about 4 gigabytes of vram consumed at 4k and ultra so the game is capable of eating quite a lot of video ram with 2 gigabytes of system rankin soon and this was after only a 10-minute test run on a low population single-player map so these numbers will or should at least inflate as you play more complex scenes and that's something that we're testing in the the immediate future so for the 1080 benchmarks you can play on pretty much anything you need to drop down to high for the gtx 950 the r9 270x or similar cards and need to drop down to medium for the gtx 750ti or similar cards to 65 things like that would be best on medium so that is the benchmark for star wars battlefront as we conducted it tonight check out the article linked in the description below for the full details for the cards that we think are the best graphics cards to buy for battlefront as it stands today in this benchmark and let me know if you have questions if you like this content if this helps you if it interests you please check out our patreon page linked in the postural video and any support we get there has been a huge help in ensuring that we're able to remain independent and our endeavors to do all this testing and stay up literally all hours of the night to put together a fun guide with a fun game so check all that out I will see you all next time