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welcome back to harbor unbox for another benchmark video today we are checking out the hotly anticipated far cry 5 now I'm not going to talk too much about the game itself in this video rather focus will be on framerate performance just quickly though the game has been developed and published by Ubisoft and despite the name it's actually the 11th installment in the Far Cry series though it is the fifth installment in the main series before we get into the benchmark results though today's video has been sponsored by a Corsair and their impressive new range of Hydro series all in one liquid coolers the new pro models are available with either a 280 millimeter or 360 millimetre radiator and both deliver exceptional performance with an almost silent operating volume for more information please check the link in the video description as expected the game uses the junior engine which is a modified version of the cry engine used by several titles in the Far Cry series already in the past this engine has had issues with textures popping in and unfortunately I have already noticed quite a bit of this one using high-end GPS from both AMD and NVIDIA so that is a bit annoying and it does attract from the experience at times still overall the game is visually impressive and for an open world title appears quite well optimised speaking of optimization unlike many titles these days far cry 5 doesn't have game works plastered all over it rather this is an AMD sponsored title though I'd consider it fairly neutral overall the goal here certainly doesn't appear to be handicapping Nvidia users AMD says that they've worked closely with Ubisoft to ensure that far cry 5 is well optimised with excellent visual quality high frame rates and low latency they've still managed to support several advanced Radeon rx Vegas specific features such as rapid packed math shader and strings expand Radeon free sync to but know these features and negatively impact GeForce users Ubisoft recommends gamers Rock a core i7 4770k processor along with the geforce gtx 970 or radeon r9 290x so fairly heavy recommendations there but you can get away with a core i5 2400 or FX 6300 along the GTX 670 or r9 270 far cry 5 is a DirectX 11 only title but that's not terribly surprising given the game engine being used here for testing AMD supplied us with their latest Radeon software adrenaline Edition driver version eighteen point three point four which is now publicly available at this point and this is a far cry 5 game ready driver at this point in videos yet to release a game ready driver for this tale so please keep that in mind and once a driver is ready we'll update the results if necessary benchmarking fire cry 5 has been made easy by the fact that there is a built in benchmark that appears to do a very good job of replicating the kind of performance you can expect to see when playing the game the benchmark pass runs for 60 seconds and reports the minimum average and maximum frames per second that said though we are manually recording the FPS performance so we can report the 1% low frame time result rather than the minimum frames per second figure though the frame time data is converted into an FPS metric far cry 5 offers for visual quality presets titled low normal high and ultra for testing at 1080p 1440p and 4k we're using the ultra quality preset but I've also done some additional testing used in the normal quality preset with some older graphics cards in total 50 different graphics cards were tested so there's loads of data to go over so let's get into it starting with the previous generation GPUs at 1080p we see some pretty decent numbers from the mid-range graphics cards the r9 390 and GTX 970 both averaged over 60fps and despite this being an AMD sponsored title the GTX 970 and 980 beat the Radeon competition the fury X also looks respectable despite the GTX 980 are offering greater performance as expected though the r9 3d does beat the GTX 960 by a comfortable margin then with the lowering graphics cards such as the r7 370 and gtx 950 for smoother gameplay you will require a lower quality preset but the performance they're offering with the ultra quality settings is still surprisingly good now at 1440p gamers will require at least and r9 390 or GTX 970 although not much faster the GTX 980 and r9 390x were noticeably smoother at times again the fury ax hangs in there well with the GTX ETI though we're ignoring the fact that the Maxwell based GPU can find another 20% performance once overclocked as well as far cry 5 played at 1440p 4k is an entirely different story still with the fury acts and the gtx 980ti both were able to deliver an average of 31 fps and it wouldn't really take that much tweaking to the visual quality settings to achieve smooth playable performance moving on to these shiny new current generation GPUs and right away we see those rx and rx Vega optimizations that AMD were talking about it's not that often we see the rx 560 beating the GTX 1050 of matching the 1050 Ti but that's the case here the RX 570 is also hot on the heels of the GTX 1063 gigabyte while the rx 580 configured with either eight gigabytes or four gigabytes of vram outpace to these six gigabyte 1060 it gets even more interesting as we get to the Vega graphics cards here Vega 56 can be seen not only destroying the 1070 by 22 percent margin but also betting the 1070 TI and GTX 1080 that's an incredible result though I do recognize that in video will no doubt improve performance with an optimized driver I can't imagine they'll fine enough though for the 1070 to match Vega 56 this also shows how Vega 56 really is the gem of the Vega lineup the much more expensive Vega 64 air-cooled model is just 4% faster and the super expensive liquid core version is just 5% faster moving on to 1440p and we see it the GTX 1050 - I had anything below it such as the rx 560 really are powerful enough to deliver playable fonts with the ultra quality settings the jump up to the rx 5 7 is a rather massive and again it's only just found trailing in the GTX 1063 gigabyte I should note despite the three gigabyte frame buffer the cut-down GTX 1060 at a great job at 1440 penis title we saw no frame time issues the rx 580 was again able to best the six gigabyte GTX 1060 offering 12 percent greater performance then we see Vega 56 is again very potent beating the 1070 1070 Ti and even the 1080 they were more or less matched the 1080 at this resolution here we see the higher end of a go models were better utilized at 1440 pair now Vegas 64 is 13 percent faster than Vega 56 which is a decent margin you'll also have no doubt noticed that Vegas 64 liquid managed to match the Pascal tight necks and while it was slightly slower than the GTX 10 80 TI when comparing the average frame rate the one percent low result was much the same so overall a great result for AMD here finally at 4k we see very playable performance from the GTX 1080 TI Titan X and Vegas 64 liquid graphics cards the gtx 980ti is obviously still the better value graphics card but still a positive result for AMD's most expensive GPU vega 56 again matched the gtx 1080 making at 21% faster than the gtx 1070 the RX 580 also meet the gtx 1060 though neither are powerful enough to game at 4k at least with the maximum in-game visual quality settings enabled and well no surprises there throwing all 33 current and previous generation GPUs into a single graph gives us this mess most GPUs are able to double the player performance at 1080p with the ultra quality preset enabled the rx 550 and GT 1030 are really the only exceptions here then at 1440p you'll really want the RX 517 r9 390 and GTX 970 as the bare minimum if you want to use the ultra quality preset that is tweaking the r9 380 for better performance wouldn't take that much but the gtx 960 will require some serious tuning then at 4k it's the big guns that'll be required and while again no surprises there vega 64 liquid looks strong but ultimately those with deep pockets will be after the gtx - now you see i still if you were to imagine a world where graphics cards sell their MSRP vega 56 does look to offer high-end gamers the most bang for their buck in far cry 5 okay so now we have some of the old bangers which i've tested using the normal quality preset at TP here we see the old GTX 580 with its 1.5 gigabyte frame buffer really can't get the job done and sadly the performance was far from playable the GT 1030 also suffers the same fate as does the GTX 650 Ti while the GTX 950 was borderline playable from the red team that HD 77 90 was no good along with the rx 5 50 though you should be able to get play performance out of the r7 260x for more optimal experience the GTX 680 7770 and Radeon HD 7950 will be required then at the top of the graph not that far behind the RX 570 we find the r9 290 - ATX HD 7970 and GTX 780 Ti I really was hoping for a greater performance uplift when using the normal quality settings that said while the RX 570 saw a 14% boost the GTX 1050 - I did become 25% faster overall at 1080p using the normal quality preset the game is very playable on a wide range of graphics cards before wrapping up the benchmarks here's a quick look at vm allocation using the ultra quality preset at the three tested resolutions as you can see the game allocates around three gigabytes worth of memory at 1080p three point five gigabytes at 1440p and four gigabytes at 4k and I should note this is when that amount of memory is available you'd expect this to make the three gigabyte 1060 a stuttering mess at 1440p and 4k but honestly it really wasn't any different to the six gigabyte model so that concludes our initial far cry 5 testing I have to say right out of the gate the game looks visually impressive and it plays very nicely for this video I have stuck to just testing with the presets and mostly the ultra quality preset but there are quite a few settings that you can play around it's not a huge amount of tweakable settings at least at this point but there are quite a few visual settings on the PC that you can tweak to better improve performance well hopefully not sacrificing visual quality too much having just checked out warhammer vermintide - and been super impressed with how well that game ran on both Amy and NVIDIA hardware it's great to see another title it's well optimized for both Radeon and GeForce owners of course neither title is riddled with game works features so maybe well-balanced performance shouldn't be that surprising next up I'm keen to throw a few dozen CPUs at this title and of course compare our wide range of coffee-like and rising processors from what I've seen so far the game looks to be pretty well optimized for the core heavy Rison CPUs so we should see some competitive numbers there as I've noted a few times in this video we will revisit the benchmarks when in video releases a game ready driver we have to wait and see what kind of performance gains will be on offer there for now though Far Cry 5 runs very well in video hardware but I have to say it's the RX Vega GPUs that have impressed or perhaps surprised the most particularly Vega 56 it's a real shame there are more titles that we see they gave this competitive in and that's going to do it for this one if you enjoyed the video be sure to hit the like button subscribe for more content if you appreciate the work we do here at harbor box then consider supporting us on patreon I've actually filmed a behind-the-scenes video of making this video that will be available for our patrons so not terribly exciting it just shows the process that I go through to make these videos swapping in and out all the graphics card and then running the benchmark runs and all that sort of stuff and yeah I've condensed that down into a few minutes it's about 10 or 11 hours worth of straight benchmarking anyway thanks for watching I'm your host Steve I'll see you next time