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welcome back to hammer unbox today we are finally covering GPU performance in fortnight just give me a moment here ok that's better so yeah as I was saying we are doing a bigger GPU performance comparison in fortnight I feel like this video has been delayed for ages now but in reality it's really only been about a week but what a long week it's been I had planned to release the benchmark results this time last week but then the meltdown and spectra security flaws surfaced and I pretty much got no sleep for almost a week there so it's all a bit foggy looking back there's still plenty more to cover on that topic but for my own sanity we're taking a break and checking out a lazy 44 GPUs in fortnight unfortunately though just as I wrapped up all my testing all 44 GPUs done and dusted NVIDIA emailed me and were like hey guys we have a new driver that improves performance in fortnight I took a moment to calm myself and then I went back to retest with the new 390 dot 65 driver I really do enjoy my job at the top end I found around a 5% performance boost though for the most part you mid-range type GPUs they saw just a two to three percent increase while the bottom feed has got absolutely nothing at all anyway I've now retested all the NVIDIA GPUs with the latest driver and this driver also addresses one of the two spectra variants that the Nvidia display drivers are vulnerable to and I will look into the performance impacts that these fixes have at a later date so for tonight why am i testing this game now you might ask well over a month ago I started testing pub jina I decided to run a poll in the channels community section as well as Twitter asking you guys which game you prefer pub G or fortnight with a third option being well neither of them 39% of you voted for pub G and just 26% voted for fortnight while a large 35% chunk said that well you don't really care for either of them the result on Twitter was slightly more even but again overall so much the same although pub G is the more popular title I was still keen to test the less demanding and better optimized for tonight okay even if you are in the minority I'm still looking out for you plus it doesn't really hurt that of the two games I much prefer fortnight middle E I haven't really spent a whole lot of time playing either of them but on the impression I've got from each title fortnight seems like the one that I would personally enjoy more for those of you unaware fortnight did receive a standalone battle royale mode late last year it has been released on Windows Mac OS PlayStation 4 and Xbox one for now this is still an early access title as developer Epic Games irons out the kinks though when compared to pub G there really appear to be almost none at least based on my own experience the free-to-play battle royale mode has proven very popular and just two weeks after its release had obtained over 10 million players obviously the battle royale genre is extremely popular but further helping is the fact that fortnight appears to play very well on just about anything and as I mentioned it is free to play although it is very well optimised there will be those of you rocking older hardware looking to upgrade to enable higher quality visuals and this is where this benchmark video will hopefully come in very handy for testing I haven't decided to focus on the higher quality settings rather than the epic settings as I feel this is where most of you using older hardware or sort of low-end hardware will be aiming to upgrade to the difference in visual quality between high and epic isn't that noticeable while the drop in framerate is so I felt for most the higher settings probably do make the most sense something I'll just touch on before we jump into the benchmarking is the 3d resolution option now this was set to epic it was the only setting set to epic but setting it to epic does ensure that you see 100 percent scaling with the selected display resolution it's a bit confusing but just setting the display resolution doesn't mean the game will be rendered at that resolution this just ensures that the HUD will be rendered at the selected resolution the actual game resolution can be set from 480p 720p TP or epic and that's where it's a bit confusing the epic setting should really just be called 100% scaling would make it a lot less confusing for gamers for the benchmark I just dropped into the game at the exact same location every time a busy town and the moment I hit the ground I just started running in the same direction every time taking the same path and that lasted for 60 seconds at which point I recorded the result did that three times and I'm presenting the average of three runs so having said all that let's jump into the benchmark results let's start with the previous generation GPUs that tell you p.m. please note I'm skipping the Radeon erics 400 series entirely as for the most part the new 500 series is exactly the same just a little factory overclocking applied here and there the rx 550 is the only truly new product while the RX 560 has two extra CE use enabled but overall isn't really that much faster than an Rx 460 so if you have a 400 series radeon GPU drop a few percent off the 500 figures and that'll put you within the ballpark for your GPU okay so at 1080p use and the high quality settings we find very playable performance on almost all GPUs tested in fact the Radeon r7 370 is the only exception here and that will require you to drop down to medium or possibly even the low quality visuals for those of you never wanting to drop below 60 fps and based on my experience playing this game staying above 60 FPS at all times makes it significantly easier to aim so yes in my opinion that would be desirable so for this you will require a Radeon r9 390 or GTX 970 actually if we look at those two GPUs for a moment we find yet another game where the GTX 970 which is now meant to be deader than Trump's candy-colored head rug puts a real beat down on the r9 390 of course the game is built upon the Unreal Engine 4 and typically we found that this game engine does favour the green team but the point is the GTX 970 is still going very strong even in relation to other GeForce graphics cards offering a whopping 24% more frames than the r9 390 even the GTX 960 which has become a bit of a failure and a number of recently released games manages to beat the r9 380 and even the 380 X then we find the GTX 980 leaving the fury X behind while the GTX 980 hey I needs the drawer decent set to epic before I can even see how far behind the fury axe is all right well let's move on to 1440p and see how things look there here we find those wanting to keep the framerate around 60 FPS as the minimum will require a gtx 980 or a fury x graphics card while the gtx 980ti and maxwell titan x streak ahead delivering over 80 FPS at all times for an average of around 60 fps the GTX 970 or r9 nano will suffice meanwhile the r9 390x and 390 weren't too bad but beyond that you'll really need to turn things down for better frame rates then at 4k even the gtx 980ti struggles and although it was still playable I did find around 40 FPS it was really difficult to aim accurately so again I would prefer around 60 fps are playing this game now it's time to check out the current generation GPUs and there's a lot more of them at tiny p the gtx 980ti titan x GT x 1080 and 1072 eye are all CPU limited to 150 FPS on average this isn't a frame cap either frame rates would shoot up well over 200 FPS when looking at the sky for example for those wondering the standard GPU test rig was used to test the game and this packs a core i7 87 ROK clocked at 5 gigahertz with ddr4 3200 memory the good news here being that for an average of 60 FPS gamers only require a gtx 1050 TI or an RX 570 the RX 570 also managed to keep their minimum frame rate above 60 fps and the 1050 TI was pretty close at 59 fps the drop down to the gtx 1050 wasn't too bad but the RX 560 really struggled to deliver playable performance as we saw previously when comparing the gtx 970 and r9 390 nvidia has a commanding lead in this title and we do see numerous examples of this with the current generation models as well take the gtx 1066 gigabyte and i RX 580 for example here the GeForce GPU was 26 percent faster hitting 112 FPS on average and typically we would expect these two GPUs to deliver a similar level of performance then at 1440p the margins are reduced but even so the gtx 1060 remained 20% faster than the RX 580 average of 60fps you will require an RX 580 but for this Tyler GTX 1063 gigabyte is a much better value option as it averaged 67 fps then we have the gtx 1070 which roughly matched Vega 64 liquid and the GTX 1080i was 46% faster and actually in danger of being limited by the CPU bang for your buck the GTX 1063 gigabyte is the standout here though if you can afford it I would suggest getting the six gigabyte model for those of you wanting to play fort not at 4k you will require a GTX 1082 I have a perfectly smooth gameplay with over 60 FPS at all times the GT X 1080 wasn't that bad but again you would have to lower the quality settings as I found it dips into the forties and that just made aiming a little too difficult for me as always I've thrown everything together into a single big jumbled graph so here we have all current and previous generation GPUs and here we have the 1080p results feel free to pause here if you want to study them a bit more closely or you can also go to text spot because there is a written version there and the link will be in the video description there moving on a 1440p again if you want to study these numbers a bit more closely then feel free to hit the pause button I will just quickly note though that here we can see the GTX 970 matching the RX 580 while the gtx 980ti makes an absolute mockery of vega 64 liquid finally the 4k numbers and as they so often doing these big breakdowns they make the GTX 10 ATT I look extremely mighty I've decided to continue the patreon bonus round which we featured in the pub G video and I'll be sticking with the models previously proposed by our much-loved patrons this is basically a super vintage bonus round GPU such as the gtx 750ti the 760 the r9 280x the two 90 and the 290x they were all heavily requested by a patreon supporters so let's see how they handle starting from the top we have the GTX 780 Ti which as we noted when testing with pub G this card's kind of died off a bit and some of the more recently released titles but that wasn't the case in pub G and it's certainly not the case in fortnight either here it pushed out an average of 101 FPS at 1080p using these same higher quality settings and this minute was just 10% slow on the GTX 1060 the plain old GTX 780 also did well matching the Radeon rx 580 the r9 290 was quite a bit slower matching the r9 390 and the rx 570 then we have the old GTX 680 which only matched the gtx 10:50 though this did make it slightly faster than the r9 280x and the Radeon HD 7970 gigahertz Edition the GTX 760 also snuck in there with those radeon gpus so that was interesting to see the HD 7950 roughly matched the RX 560 while the gtx 660ti was for us to them both of them then finally we have the gtx 750ti which does do surprisingly well for what it is it was interesting to see it hanging in there with the old 500 series flagship part the GTX 580 that particular model uses considerably more power so yeah very interesting to see that again though as was the case with all the entry-level GPUs you will want to reduce the quality settings for improved frame rates but still 41 fps on average was decent and it was a nice step up from the Radeon r7 370 well there you have it a 44 GPU comparison all tested under the same conditions in fought and hot Battle Royale now this should give those of you trying to work out what GPU you need for a desired framerate going into this we knew that fortnight was a lot like other games that use the cartoon style graphics such as overwatch and Team Fortress for example artistically the game looks great but it's also pretty easy going on the GPU still though if you want to play at 1440p with higher quality settings or perhaps even the epic settings you will want something like a GTX 1060 or better especially if you like me and you can't aim worth a damn at less than 60 fps now depending on how much demand there is I might also do a CPU roundup for this title so let me know if that's something you're interested in you want to see it so you drop that in the comment section below for now though that is going to do it for the fortnight testing I'll revisit the game later next month when we do get those AMD desktop AP use that should be very interesting indeed a fortnight is the perfect game for testing such a product also if you liked the video then you know please hit the like button for us we really appreciate that and if you appreciate the amount of time and work that we put into these videos then perhaps consider supporting us on patreon and that will give you a direct line of via discord to demand as many benchmarks as you like I'm your host Steve see you next time