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welcome back to harbor unboxed now recently i've seen a huge amount of comments on our archie ex 2060 gtx 660ti and 1660 coverage celebrating how fast a vega 56 has become quite a few viewers have claimed that vega 56 is now caught up to the gtx 1080 and I suppose that's been brought on because we have seen quite a few impressive results recently new titles such as Forza horizon for dirt rally 2.0 and a Resident Evil 2 for example and that's pretty impressive it also certainly seems like progress given back when I first reviewed Vega 56 in late 2017 out of the 25 games tested at beat the GTX 1080 in just a single title dirt for using CM AAA this meant on average it was 14% slot on the GTX 1080 at 1440p certainly not a bad results at the time but I wonder in 2019 has that margin shrunk since so many of you have asked me to look closely at the GTX 1080 and Vega 56 comparison I thought we might as well do that however when I make these sorts of videos I always run into the issue of not being able to please everyone if I only compare to Vega 56 week the GTX 1080 I'd get Vega 56 was never meant to compete with the GT X 1080 unfair comparison you shal unsubbed then if I only compared value 56 with the gtx 1070 i'd get the gtx 1070 i was released for a reason unfair comparison you shal unsubbed I guess I could just compare Vega 56 to the gtx 1070 TI but that's not really the comparison many of you have been requesting so to cover all my bases i'm going to see how vega 56 stacks up against the gtx 1070 1070 TI and at 1080 and 37 games at 1080p and 1440p you happy good let's get on with it for this one we'll be looking closely performance at 1440 paint about a dozen titles and then we'll jump to a 37 game breakdown comparing vega 56 head-to-head with the gtx 1070 and 1080 the graphs also include 1080p data but i'll skip over discussing that purely to save time finally the test system used in a quarry 999 hurricane clocked at 5 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 3,200 memory ok let's get into the results performance in shadow of the Tomb Raider hasn't changed since our original testing but that's good news for AMD as Vega 56 is just a few frames long the gtx 280 and well ahead of the gtx 1070 it's certainly not a win over the 1080 but it's almost close enough to call a tie at least 1440p anyway moving on AMD hit the ground running in Forza horizon four and it's been a solid title for them ever since release as you can see Vega 56 beats the GTX tannerite are both tested resolutions and was 5% faster at 1440p not a massive win but then any win over the GTX 1080 really can be considered a massive win for Vega 56 generation zero is a newly released title and a few patreon members requested that I add it to our battery of game benchmarks so here it is AMD look as though they're yet to do much optimization work and this one is Vega 56 does fall behind even the gtx 1070 so that is a bit of a shame yes anthem I'm finally testing with it for the first time I actually bought this game with our patreon money before release apologies to all our amazing patreon members for effectively wasting that money anyway because the game tanked I never actually installed it that is until now not sure what to tell you really I was just trying to get to a 40 game benchmark with this fun Vega 56 does quite well at 1440p edged ahead of the gtx 1070 i by amie 4% margin to come in just 5% slot on the gtx tane so overall quite a good result as was the case with dirt for the radeon GPU is completely dominating dirt to here Vega 56 outpaced the GTX 1080 by 7% margin so it's obviously a great result for the red team and I can see why people are starting to believe Vega is making a late charge with results like these the GTX 1080 and Vega 56 are evenly matched in the division to the GeForce GPU just managed to energy ahead by a few frames very Vega 56 did just that when looking at the 1% low performance so as I said they are very evenly matched performance is also competitive in Far Cry new donnas GT X 1080 was a few frames faster on average while both produce the same 73 FPS 1% low result needless to say Vega 56 performed much more like a gtx 1080 in this title than did gtx 1070 TI and it pretty well smoked the vanilla 1070 moving on we have apex legends and here all four GPUs performed very well at 1440p that said Vega 56 edged out the gtx 1070 TI very this one is basically close enough to call a tie the GT X 1080 was 11% faster so a reasonably comfortable victory for NVIDIA is more expensive GPU in this title Ace Combat 7 skies unknown is another patron requested game so naturally I've added it that said it's not a particularly great title for AMD and we're starting to see a bit of a trend T with these lesser known games seems AMD just doesn't have the budget to optimize for everything moreover a lot of these games are likely developed using Nvidia hardware anyway Vega 56 was slower than even the gtx 1070 in this one and making it 26 percent slower than the GTX 1080 next up we have Rainbow six siege and here Vega 56 just edged out the GTX 1080 at 1440p despite winning rather comfortably at 1080p anyway this is at the very least to tie and that's an exceptional result for the radio and GPU it also meant that vega 56 was 19% fast and the gtx 1070 in this title the strange brigade results are quite interesting here vega 56 managed to match the average frame rate of the gtx 1088 1440p but was down quite a bit for the 1% lower result and we often see this with AMD GPUs in this title still the 1% lower figure wasn't horrible and Vega 56 did manage to match the gtx 1070 TI so overall another good result for AMD now this is very interesting back when I did my 40-something GPU benchmark of battlefield 5 Vega 56 was actually 11% slower than the GTX 1080 at 1440p the games now gone through several patches since then an AMD has released a plethora of driver updates I'm also testing a slightly different section of the game but I'm certain that last point doesn't account for the difference we see here today from 11 percent slower upon release Vega 56 is now 5 percent faster than the GTX 1080 at when comparing the average framerate performance the one percent low performance is a little weak but even so it's still edged out the gtx 1070 TI here overall very impressive stuff from the red team in battlefield 5 Metro Exodus is an nvidia sponsored title so not terribly surprising to see vega 56 trailing the gtx 1080 by a 13% margin vega 56 finds itself slotted in between the gtx 1070 and 1070 TI and this one so not a bad result but I feel with some optimization work we would be looking at a better result these are the performance figures we got in late January when testing Resident Evil 2 for the first time and the layers display drivers don't change anything here so Vega 56 retains its win beating the gtx 10a by a 5% margin though they were basically identical we're comparing 1% low performance at 1440p still this is an exceptionally good result for Vega 56 I think based on what we just saw there it's pretty clear that Vega 56 hasn't actually caught the GTX 1080 at least not overall but there certainly were a few impressive results I suspect it's doing a little better than the 14% loss we saw in our day 1 coverage so let's jump over to the 37 game breakdown and take a close look at the current situation ok so this time out Vega 56 was found to be just 9% slower than the GTX 10a on average across the 37 games tested impressively it enjoyed big wins in Rainbow six siege and dirt 4 though neither are particularly new titles while it was also faster in dirt rally to Forza horizon for Resident Evil 2 and battlefield 5 there were a few games where Vega 56 gets shafted may include Assassin's Creed Odyssey Ace Combat 7 project cars 2 and World of Tanks still overall a pretty positive 2019 test for value 56 it's also really interesting to note that while Vega 56 was just 2% fast and the GTX 1070 back in late 2017 it's now 9 percent faster and better still it was slower by more than a 5% margin interest three of the 37 games tested while it's faster by more than a 5 percent margin in 23 of the titles tested so in conclusion yes value 56 is certainly looking better today than it did release so that is good news the bad news being that none of these Pascal GPUs featured in this video value 56 is current competition today Vega 56 is priced at best to compete with the RT X 2060 and at worst the RT X 2070 given the ITX 2060 is 7% faster an average that paints Vega 56 into a rather tough spot and as I said in my RTS 2060 coverage unless you can get Vega 56 for $300 or less I wouldn't bother hopefully AMD can make more of an impact with na'vi soon we can only hope and that is going to do it for this one if you did enjoy the video be sure to the like button subscribe for more content and if you appreciate that where would your our box then can see that supporting us on patreon thank you for watching I'm your host Steve and I'll see you again next time you