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welcome back to harbor unbox today I'm finally benchmarking Metro Exodus and in case you were worried that I was starting to get lazy on you guys there is a good reason for why we're late to the party now the game was only released last week so four days ago now but we were given a review code a few days prior to release so we've had access for quite some time now a bit longer than we normally would but we're still yet to publish our big GPU benchmark however Tim decided to quickly check out ray-tracing and DL SS performance and after publishing that video we caught wind that there would be a day one patch which claimed to improve performance also along with the game's release aimday nvidia pushed our updated drivers so we felt it was just best to wait i only briefly tested the previous display drivers from each company but as far as I can tell the updated drivers made no real performance improvements what did improve performance was the day one patch so our results might differ a bit from those published earlier actually I've taken a look at results published by the usual suspects and some have shown much higher frame rates thus while others have shown slightly lower I believe those showing slightly lower results of tested in similar demanding sections of the game but have done so pre patch while though showing much higher frame rates have made the mistake of testing areas that aren't very demanding generally performance does fluctuate quite a bit in games depending on what's being rendered though developers do try to optimize levels for more consistent performance now I wouldn't say they've done a poor job of this with Metro Exodus but you will see frame rates with say a GTX 1060 at 1080p as high as 70 to 80 fps in some areas and then just 30 to 40 fps and others so picking where your test is really important probably more so than usual helping me pick a good spot for testing Tim recommended a demanding section that's early on in the game he's played much further and found other demanding sections but believes this one is very representative of how demanding the game can get and with it being early on in the game I don't have to invest hours playing because we all know I'd rather be benchmarking so this means we've canned the canned benchmark in favor of an in-game 60-second pass the benchmark takes place in Moscow it's very early on in the campaign it takes place after a mutated pack of wolves runs past for testing I'm using the ultra preset which sees invidious hair works and advanced physics disabled by default tessellation though is enabled the game also supports both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 api's but performance using a kora 919 or a cane was identical using either API so that being the case we've decided to go with DX 12 for benchmarking our standard GPU test rig was used built inside the corsair crystal 570 X that packs the core I $9.99 oh okay clocked at 5 gear guts with 32 gigabytes of vengence ddr4 3400 memory the latest AMD and NVIDIA display drivers were installed for AMD that was their adrenaline 2019 Edition nineteen point two point two and for NVIDIA their geforce for 1891 drivers I think it's about everything you need to know let's jump into the results since we have 36 different GPUs here I've created a scrolling graph so let's start at the top and then work our way down as you can see the r-tx 20 ATT I had no issues keeping things above 100 FPS and while 131 FPS at 1080p isn't amazing for this extreme high end GPU it's better than what I've seen in titles such as Assassin's Creed Odyssey just cause for hitman 2 and Kingdom Come deliverance for example moving down the list we see the Archie X 2080 delivering very solid performance here it was 13% faster the GTX 1080i so this title appears well optimized for videos nuturing architecture that said the 1080 TI still does well and it seemed beating the much newer Radeon seven men while the RT X 27 and 2060 offer very similar performance and both were faster than not just Vega 64 liquid but also the GTX 1080 for those hoping for around 60 FPS at AEP you will require some pretty heavy GPU firepower at the very least to GTX 1070 or Vega 56 will be required a Vega 56 was the faster of the two as roughly matched the gtx 1070 TI then for around 50 FPS on average the Radeon rx 590 or GeForce GTX 1060 will work and here we see the gtx 1066 EG bite is 9% fast in the RX 580 and 14% faster than the 3 gigabyte 1060 then anything below the RX 5 r9 390 I deemed too slow for an enjoyable experience this meant the weakest in video GP you'd want to play with is the GeForce GTX 970 so like I said the game demands some serious harbor at 1080p when using the ultra quality preset which isn't the highest quality preset available that would be extreme and for those of you wondering I will explore performance with lower quality presets a bit later on the video but for now let's check out how the game plays at 1440p with the ultra quality setting ok so again starting with the RDX 2080 ti we see that the average frame rate remained just over 100 FPS while the one percent low drop down towards 90 fps still that's pretty impressive given the RT x 28 he couldn't even average 90 fps and said it was good for you 3 FPS the radio and 7 was 14% slot with 71 fps and this meant it was just 8% faster than the RT x 2070 and just 16% faster than the RT X 2060 not great given it costs twice as much the arch X 2060 is actually really good value here it matched the GT x 1080 and really wasn't noticeably slower than 2070 Vega 64 liquid does okay but I think it's Vega 56 that's really the standout AMD option here despite getting completely wasted by the 2060 but it is of course in a video sponsored title so probably no surprises there in videos older Maxwell GPUs are hanging in rather well that 980ti matched the gtx 1070 while the 980 matched the six gigabyte 1060 the six year by 1060 was also 12% faster than the rx 580 though neither were great at 1440p it has to be said averaging less than 40 fps basically anything below the RX 580 or GTX 970 were unplayable at this resolution then at 4k well pretty much good luck here you need 90 X 20 atti or you need to settle for inferior quality settings at which point you might as well bite the bullet and just play at 1440p the game was playable using a GTX 1080 or r-tx 2060 Radeon 7 or anything better but once you start seeing 1% low performance dipping below 30fps the stuttery frame rates really do harm the experience now before wrapping things up i retested 31 GPUs men of them are not tested previously to see if you can get away with older hardware at 1080p using the medium quality settings with tessellation disabled and of course hair works and advanced physics still turned off the medium quality setting allowed the GTX 970 averaged 92 fps this is a massive 119 percent performance boost day for what we saw if the ultra quality preset and similar gains were also seeing with the RX 5 70 + r9 390 the GTX 1050 t I saw a doubling of framerate and this meant it was now able to deliver highly playable formance which was nice to see we also see some old timers such as the HD 7970 and GTX 780 Ti offering playable performance and boy oh boy has the 7970 aged well of course the r9 280x is a rebadged 7970 with a factory overclock and therefore we also see that particular model topping the 780 Ti meanwhile the slowest GPUs you'll get away with include the r9 380 gtx 780 950 and the 1050 finally capping off the testing we have some quality preset scaling results we've just seen how the medium quality preset offered a massive performance uplift with the older GPUs especially those with 4 gigabytes or less vram the gains with the 8 gigabyte rx5 80 and 60 gigabyte 1060 aren't as extreme but even so we saw around a 50 to 60 percent performance boost when dropping down to the medium quality preset from ultra what's interesting here is that the 580 in 10-6 deliver basically identical performance with the low and medium quality settings however once we get to higher the 10 60 pulls a few percent ahead and then extends that margin further with the ultra preset if there maintains its 9% lead with the extreme quality settings tessellation was enabled for all these tests while hair works and advanced physics were disabled I suspect the level of tessellation is increased with the ultra and extreme settings and this hands in video a slight advantage so for those of you hoping to enjoy Metro Exodus and all of its glory are you're gonna need one hell of a gaming rig to be fair though the game does scale down quite well to accommodate all the hardware so that was nice to see and Tim will have a detailed Metro Exodus graphical optimization video for you guys tomorrow for now though the quality preset scaling graph will give you a good idea of typical performance gains you can expect to see when lower in the quality settings for those of you with a sub $300 GPU high quality appears to be a good choice also if you have less than 4 gigabytes of vram then I strongly suggest using the medium quality setting at 1080p using the ultra quality setting often saw a vm allocation reach around 3.8 gigabytes on cards with 6 to 8 gigabytes of memory and just over 4 gigabytes at 1440p and then almost 5 gigabytes at 4k also for those of you wondering I did skip over any ray tracing or DL SS testing as Tim's covered that already Tim was also reasonably impressed with ray tracing in Metro far more so than battlefield 5 anyway where he believes that didn't come close to justifying the performance hit personally well I don't disagree with Tim I wasn't that impressed and really struggled to spot any differences at all the performance it were I tested was also more extreme than what Tim saw whereas he observed a 29% performance hit using the benchmark tool I saw a more extreme 39% performance hit when in game for me a roughly 40 percent performance hit which saw the RT X 28 ETA at 1440 pedra for an average of 105 fps 265 fps it's just laughably bad still I agree with Tim it's a better implementation that we got with battlefield 5 but that's really not saying much finally it's also worth noting the day one patch did improve performance which is why we waited and we would have certainly received a lot more views on this content if we went earlier but I felt you guys had probably appreciate a more up-to-date benchmark and I really didn't feel like testing almost 60 different graphics cards twice in the same week overall the game looks great it's highly detailed and this is obviously a large reason for why it's so demanding but both Amy and NVIDIA GPUs do perform very well and although it is an Nvidia sponsored title I feel like the radio and GPUs did deliver excellent performance I was most impressed with the older Radeon GPUs such as the HD 7970 and that performed exceptionally well when using the medium quality setting anyway that is going to do it for now be sure to keep an eye out for Tim's optimization guide and they're always chock-full of great content and if you enjoyed this video be sure to hit the like button subscribe for more content just like this and if your preciate that work we do at our box then consider supporting us on page thank you for watching I'm your host Steve and I'll see you again next time that was a large back