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it's that time of year again the time to milk the call of duty franchise for all it's worth yet again we find ourselves the futuristic shooter but this time there's a crazy twist it's in outer space anyway I won't rip on the game too much the single-player campaign actually looks pretty good at least from what I've seen so far the professional reviews are also mostly positive from what I've seen though gamers themselves are having fun tearing every aspect of the game to shreds quite a few of you have asked for performance video showing how the current and previous generation AMD and NVIDIA GPUs handle this new Call of Duty tile well ask and you shall receive I've tested 23 GPUs and our core i7 test rig using the latest drivers from both teams by now I'm sure you guys know the drill so before we get on with it here's a quick look at the quality settings use for testing essentially we've maxed out every quality setting SMA 82 x was the anti-aliasing method used while options that could be set to ultra and extreme were testing takes place at the start of the black sky mission and well rather than describe the run let's just take a look sent def is using our latest guns to shoot down the fleet I'm really not sure what's going on lately with AMD in their directx 11 performance but they have been kicking some serious goals the gtx 960 just managed to live on what we feel is acceptable performance while the r9 380 offers a much smoother experience at 1080p likewise a 390 was considerably better than the GTX 970 even at the top end of the food chain we see that the fury x is able to edge out the gtx 980 TI allowing it to rub transistors with the Titan X moving to 1440p the r9 390 X is required for a 60 FPS average while nvidia's gtx 980 averaged 51 frames a second the GTX 950 and 960 fellow a to unplayable frame rates while the r9 380 and 3 DX hung in there again the fury x can be found alongside the 980 TI and tight necks the previous generation GPU struggle at 4k and while a few quality settings can be downgraded without impacting the visuals too heavily we recommend gamers look to the current generation lineup for 4k gameplay even with the current generation GPUs we find AMD has a significant performance advantage in this title the RX 480 easily disposed of the GTX 1060 delivering ten percent more performance at 1080p meanwhile the RX 470 was fifty-five percent faster than the new gtx 1050 TI so a bit of a slaying there then although both were very playable it is crazy to see the gtx 1070 offering just ten percent more performance in the RX 480 those are all in a game at 1440p can do so with the RX 474 80 or gtx 1060 the three gigabyte 1060 did dip noticeably lower at times but issues such as stuttering wasn't seen impressively the RX 480 is still averaged over 60 FPS at this resolution ideally gamers will want the GD x 1080 for a smooth 4k gaming experience and if you can afford at the Titan XP is naturally the most powerful option here delivering almost fifty percent more performance in the gtx 280 throwing young and old together we end up with this mess the fury ex looks mighty impressive sitting alongside the gtx 1070 and as we previously saw also the maxwell tight necks the RX 470 has no trouble crushing the highly popular gtx 970 while almost matching the gtx 980 at 1440p we find a few variations in performance the RX 470 is now able to not just out class the GTX 970 but also the 980 and buy a fairly significant margin I might add for now AMD lacks the GPU firepower to fight the 4k battle and although the fury x did pull ahead of the gtx 1070 neither is really fast enough here the GTX 1080 on the other hand scraped by while the Titan XP obliterates everything with next level performance like titanfall 2 we find that call of duty infinite warfare isn't particularly demanding on the CPU using our core i7 6700 k test rig utilization rarely exceeded thirty percent during both the single-player and multiplayer portions of the game core i3 users have been reporting high frame rates and given what we've seen here I'm not at all surprised well the good news being that gamers won't require hideously expensive graphics cards such as the feller i have here to my left to enjoy smooth consistent playable frame rates at resolutions up to 1440p the best value option by far looks to be the RX 470 though the GTX 1060 holds its own well enough optimization for the current and previous generation GPS is very impressive and they really took it to the competing Maxwell and Pascal GPUs along with the mild GPU requirements the game will also run happily on a core i5 or FX series processor of course we always expected 2016 full of duty going to be relatively hardware friendly given the graphics aren't anything special assuming the game was optimized well enough it was always going to run on mid-range hardware and thankfully this is in the case graphically the game doesn't look too bad but it pales in comparison when compared to battlefield one for example well that wraps up our performance coverage of the latest in a long line of Call of Duty games infinite warfare being what is it the 13th installment now in the series at this point you really have to wonder how many times a game can be recycled so what do you guys think will you be investing your money in this title I'm very very keen to hear what you have to say this has been Steve bringing you another performance breakdown I hope you enjoyed it and I'll catch you guys next time ok