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yesterday I finally wrapped up a few days worth of testing for the latest battlefield title the focus was mainly on GPU performance so it stuck with my core i7 6700 K test rig for the most part the DirectX 11 results had the RX 480 and gtx 1060 performing pretty close to one another though the GeForce graphics card was a few frames faster I only took a quick look at direct x12 performance because what I'd seen so far wasn't that impressive and report some others at the time seem to be in line with my own findings the AMD graphics cards delivered around the same performance while the Nvidia cards were a bit slower a few of you were quick to point out that a few highly rated outlets such as digital foundry found the Rx for a dude to be quite a bit faster when using DirectX 12 with micro 7 test rig overclocked to 4.5 gigahertz this wasn't the case at 1440p I got the same performance of 67 - 68 fps on average since finishing my initial testing and he also released the Crimson 16 point 10.2 driver which they accidentally forgot to pass along to my little channel anyway last night around 10 p.m. my MD contact was still away can he pass the driver long what a champ I immediately got testing and I'm about to show you what I found for this video I'm just gonna focus on the gtx 1060 and our X 480 along with the core i7 6700k and Core i5 6600 K since we won't be doing huge amount of testing for this one I'll just show you the gameplay footage which is being captured using the external alghero HD 60s let's get to it first up we have the 6700 K test machine which is clocked at four and a half gigahertz with the tank stationary at the start of our tests we see the 1060 is a few frames faster than the 480 using DirectX 11 however using DirectX 12 the four 80s around 5:00 or so frames faster than the 10 60 interestingly the 480 looks to be delivering much the same performance using DirectX 12 is the did DirectX 11 the difference being that the GTX 1060 is slobbed let's just watch this footage to the end and then move on to the core i5 results here we have the same system with a creek CPU swap now I'm to the core i5 66 I'm okay which I might add isn't overclocked let's have a look at the performance at the beginning of this test it's interesting to note that the performance is almost exactly the same as what we saw with the 6700 K in my initial benchmark I noted that when briefly testing with the 6600 K it was just a few frames slower than the overclocked 6700 once again here we can see that this is indeed the case again we see that for the most part the RX for this performance seems much the same using DirectX 12 and DirectX 11 meanwhile the 10 60 is up to 10 FPS slower using DirectX 12 here's a direct comparison between the our X 480 running DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 in our tests really at no stage is there more than at where PS difference sometimes DirectX 11 was faster and sometimes DirectX 12 was which makes sense since I originally found no real difference here these results were recorded using a heavily overclocked core i7 processor so again let's check the core i5 6600 K results even with the stock 6600 K the results seemed to be much the same with a few exceptions towards the end of the benchmark where things really kick off the rx 480 takes the serious performance hit using DirectX 12 this contradicts what some others have reported whereas the RX 418 ever drops below 80 3 FPS using DirectX 11 we see a drop down to 51 FPS very briefly using DirectX 12 while quite a bit of time was spent in the 60s so I'm not quite sure what to make it up moving on to the final comparison I'd like to make let's see how the gtx 1060 using DirectX 11 compares to the rx 480 using DirectX 12 initially the 10 CC can be seen 5 to 7 FPS ahead of the RX 4 80 throughout the test the to do trade blows though for the most part the 10 60 does stay ahead at the end of the test when things get busy the 10 60 never dip below 78 fps whereas the our X 480 often drops down into the 60s this is by no means bad performance from the our X 480 but it was at times 10 FPS slower despite using directives 12 what a slow-moving target here driver okay so I'm not sure if this has helped clear anything up or just created more questions I do stand behind my initial DirectX 11 test and strongly believe that to be a hundred percent accurate if I didn't Adam in the video I admit more DirectX 12 testing needs to be done and I plan to tackle this more in the future unfortunately for now this is the best I could do with the time I have available so as many of you know I'm going in for my ACL surgery next week and before then I've got to cover the GTX 1050 and 1050 TI graphics cards for you guys speaking of which have a little something extra to show you in this video I wonder what it could be never seen such green boxes from MSI so there you have it I've got the 1050 and the 1050 Ti so it's gonna be a busy weekend benchmarking on Tuesday you should expect to see basically two board partner card reviews so I'll be covering probably six or seven of the latest games so you can expect all the normal information in those including your power consumption and thermals and all that sort of stuff as for the bigger sort of 20 game benchmarks I think that Steve's gonna be handling that one and you can expect that a little later in the week and most likely first up if you're comparing this to the RX 462 gigabyte card so I hope the testing in this video was useful for you guys I'll see you guys for an episode of unboxing boxes with ban on Monday have an awesome weekend and I'll see you guys next time cheers guys for joining me for another episode of hardware unbox so those of you that already support the channel thank you so much it's truly appreciated and to those of you that would like to support the channel directly I do have Amazon links and a patreon link in the video description below thanks a lot and I'll see you guys next time