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hot off the heels of my mafia 3 benchmark video I've jumped headfirst into useable fall which I might add is thankfully a significantly better quality game Gears of War 4 is exciting for a few reasons most notably of which is the fact that it should be the first game to truly leverage the capabilities of the Unreal Engine 4 the game is built on the 4.11 version which is a more recent build featuring full DirectX 12 support asynchronous computers been leveraged heavily so it'll be interesting to see how the AMD nvidia gpus compare both AMD and NVIDIA do have game ready drivers forgivable for though I should point out that Nvidia work closely with developer the Coalition on the game therefore we expect the GeForce graphics cards might have an advantage over their radiant rivals at least initially this is the first DirectX 12 title that hasn't been tailored to aim DS Hardware get man and dose X come to mind for example so again it'll be interesting to see how things pan out for testing we stuck to the built in benchmark which seems to do a good job of replicating actual gameplay the ultra quality preset was enabled with a sync turned on each time we changed the resolution or reloaded the game with a different graphics card the ultra preset needed to be reapplied so this was done before each run as usual the latest display drivers were installed for testing and my core i7 6700 K test rig was used before we get into the benchmark results here's a quick look at the built in benchmark test anyone those of you rocking a previous generation GPU be pretty happy with the performance at 1080p with the game maxed out even the little old gtx 950 maintained over 30 FPS for an average of 40 we know the gtx 960 isn't particularly fast at the nvidia reference clock speeds and this does hand the r9 380 the win still at 17% faster the 380 was a good bit faster at the stop clocks bumping the resolution up to 1440p we see that it takes the i-93 ATX to stay above the dreaded 30fps for a smoother more consistent experience the gtx 970 or r9 390 you'll be required meanwhile the fury action gtx 980ti closely battled each rendering over 60 FPS on average as it might expect 4k gaming on a single GPU isn't possible using previous generation hardware the fury acts despite its limited 4 gigabyte frame buffer was king here with an average of 34 yes in video's current generation lineup which is yet to feature any truly affordable GPUs has no trouble delivering over 60 FPS at all times at 1080p the RX 480 and 470 were both very impressive as well Dericks 460 struggled but given the quality settings the results are still very impressive 1440p performance and Gears of War 4 is still very good on the GTX 1063 gear ID and rx 470 both delivering nice playable performance still for those of you who can't fair to dip below 60fps the gtx 1070 will be required now at 4k gamers can scrape by with the gtx 1070 though the 1080 performance was noticeably better of course if you can afford to meet in videos extreme pricing demands to the tight next then smooth 4k experience can be hard period in sky is old 19 GPUs side-by-side at 1080p the results have been discussed but this graph makes it easy to compare AMD and videos previous generation lineup with their current gear here are the 1440p results if you need time to study them feel free to pause the video alternatively you can easily find your way back here using the video index in the description finally here at 4k we see there are just a few select GPUs capable of playable performance meanwhile you can even select the 4k resolution with a graphics card limited to a 2 gigabyte frame buffer which is probably a good thing I bet you guys thought we were done well not quite yet let's see what kind of impact Aysen compute does or doesn't have on performance as you can see the GTX 1060 didn't gain much from having a sink enabled and this has become quite a common theme you could draw the conclusion that the Pasco GPUs can't take advantage based in computer or they simply don't need to as they're already operating at or near maximum efficiency from the Red Team web the rx 480 which gained around 6% more performance today sink computer neighborhood when looking at the minimum frame rates so a nice little boost for AMD here and that little extra performance helped to close the gap on the gtx 1060 so what about cpu performance let's take a look at cpu utilization on the core i7 test machine running the type next for the purpose of these tests I've dropped the clock speed down to three and a half key guards with turbo disabled at this frequency utilization set around 40 percent in the benchmark direct times did rise up as high as 70 percent this was in line with actual game players by large CPU utilization sat between 30 and 40 percent given these findings there shouldn't be a noticeable difference in performance between say a Core i5 and a core i7 processor and the game should also be playable using a core i3 so there you have it Gears of War 4 is a great looking game and more importantly is very well optimized for PC hardware although NVIDIA has had a lot to do with the development of the game it's nice to see it running so well in AMD hardware as well was also great to find such strong performance not only on the latest gen hardware but also on previous generation stuff as well at this point I can see the Gears of War 4 to be a true DirectX 12 title it's certainly one of the best-looking and most polished examples we have so far as I found in the past when playing around with async compute support in games there's little to no benefit for NVIDIA while AMD gains five to ten percent more performance thanks to the game's DirectX 12 support driver overhead doesn't appear to be an issue for AMD this not only helps boost performance at resolutions such as 1080p but it means load on the CPU has also been reduced as such the CPU doesn't appear to be worked that hard and for the most part with the core i7 6700k clocked down and locked at three and a half gigahertz utilization such forty percent so what do you guys think how many of you gonna get into Gears of War for let me know in the comments I'm your host Matt as always 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