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hey guys and welcome back to part two of my investigation into how a rise in mobile specifically the risin 5 2500 you performs in recent games if you haven't seen the first part of this two-part series check that out too because it covers popular multiplayer and eSports titles like pub G 49 overwatch and csgo which you know it might be interest to you in this video however we'll be diving headfirst into the graphics extravaganza that is recent triple-a titles including intensive entries like The Witcher 3 and Assassin's Creed origins to see if some or any of these games can scale down to a level that's actually playable on the integrated Vega 8 GPU here I specifically chosen to look at more recent titles here because it's not always obvious if these sort of games can be played on integrated graphics in fact I know for sure that every game I'm looking at today is not playable on Intel's 8th gen you serious EPS so we're really get to see the benefits of the Rison 5 2500 years increased GPU power older games are less interesting not just because they tend to be less popular but also because most of the time they're easier to run you know games like Skyrim BioShock Infinite Tomb Raider and so forth are all quite playable and octo portables these days so there's not much point going through what rise in mobile brings for five-year-old titles so we're sticking to reasonably recent releases in this video like part 1 all testing was done on the HP Envy x-360 a 15 inch slim and light laptop with the horizon 5 2500 you inside and 16 gig of ram again there is a faster rise of mobile trip out there the risin 7 2,700 you but I haven't had hands-on time with it just yet so when I do expect an updated version of this video with brand new data let's kick this thing off with Grand Theft Auto 5 which I did cover briefly in my original review of the Rison 5 2500 you as I said in that be Rison mobile is actually capable of playing gta5 at 1080p which you can't say for intel's 8th gen parts on the lowest quality DirectX 11 preset the game is comfortably playable with mid-forties frame rates and the best thing is it's smooth - so when you're flogging around corners in a fast car even zooming across the landscape in a helicopter or jet there's basically no stuttering and only the occasional brief data streaming slow down when you're flying in a fast vehicle while GTA 5 isn't the newest game and it was built with last gen consoles in mind is still surprising how well this game scales down to relatively weak integrated graphics it's not as good news for the other older title I tested The Witcher 3 this game definitely does not scale well because with the lowest possible in game settings and even just a 720p resolution it's completely unplayable jogging around novigrad and frame rates were in the low 20s and it doesn't get much better outside the major cities to make matters worse for The Witcher 3 on integrated graphics the game looks absolutely atrocious with such low quality settings it actually is quite surprising the game doesn't run better considering how bad it looks but clearly the engine has been designed for high performance systems as it's far from a poorly optimized game on true gaming machines there is a chance the game might be at least a little bit playable on arisin 7 2700 you system although I guess you will probably still have to put up with the terrible visuals a couple of other games I tested were far from playable as well and none of these should be a big surprise Assassin's Creed origins is one of the best looking games of 2017 but even on the lowest quality settings with a 50% resolution scale which brings the actual rendered resolution down to just 5 for TP the Rison 5 2500 year falls well short of providing 30 FPS in the game's benchmark judging by what I've seen some areas of the game are more intensive than the inbuilt benchmark so there's really no hope for playing this very recent release on rise of mobile another Ubisoft title watchdogs - is slightly more playable in the sense that you can run it at 720p not 540 P but it's not a great experience in general on the lowest preceptor game runs below 30 fps but it's the major stuttering that makes this game unplayable this game is well known to use a lot of CPU resources in addition to the GPU and all up you know it's too much for the risin 5 2500 you the final unplayable game I tested is another recent release Middle Earth shadow of war this game isn't the best from a gameplay perspective but it flat-out does not run well on the horizon 5 2500 you though that should come as a surprise from a 27 release with decent visuals on the lowest preset and just a 720p resolution the game fails to reach 30 FPS in the benchmark and runs like crap in the actual game so give this one a Miss I reckon it's better news for rise of the Tomb Raider this game looks fantastic on high-end systems but it does have the ability to scale down to perform well enough on the horizon 5 2500 you when set to a 720p resolution and the lowest possible quality settings the game does sit above 30 fps even in the intensive geothermal valley area the game looks dreadful at this level of detail so it's probably not the best way to play as much of this game is enjoying the beautiful visuals but I guess you can play it on an ultra portable with rising Mobile inside if you really want to a game you might genuinely want to play on rising robot is pray while this game was released in 2017 and uses the demanding cry engine it runs reasonably well on the low preset with the resolution set to 900 P when I say reasonably well I do mean just above 30fps with a rare dip just below in intensive situations with a game like pray around 30 FPS is playable and of course you can lock the game to that framerate for a console like experience it's not surprising prey runs well on the rise and 520 500 you either this is one of the better optimized games for AMD GPU hardware and it runs really well on powerful systems as it's not the most graphically demanding modern release the lowest preset clearly cuts out enough detail that it scales down nicely the integrated graphics and with the slight reduction in resolution began is playable with some roughness around the edges the biggest surprise in this entire video will be Star Wars Battlefront 2 in between designing and implementing a complicated loot box is still designed to ring buyers out of every last cent and writing a disappointing single-player campaign EA and dice did manage to optimize the Frostbite engine to a point where this game runs superbly on low-end hardware even though this game was released just a few months ago with great visuals on higher systems battlefront 2 is comfortably playable on the horizon 5 2500 you set everything to the lowest possible settings and use a 75% resolution scale at 1080p so we're rendering once again at 8 10 P and you don't just sit above 30 FPS but you most often hover in the 40 to 50 FPS bracket now this is the ultimate battlefront to experience as ideally you'd want to be running at 60 fps and at a native 1080p but the game doesn't look too bad in upscale 810 P it certainly doesn't lose enough detail to become unplayable and the framerate is high enough to still be able to slaughter foes in galactic assault multiplayer the final game I'll be talking about here is Civilization 6 because this is a perfect game to play on the go as I mentioned in my initial review of the Rison 5 2500 you this is the first 15 watt laptop chip I've used that provides a playable experience in Civilization 6 set to the lowest quality settings of 1080p you'll get at least 35 fps in the most intensive situations but more like 50 fps throughout most of the game as a game that doesn't really need a high frame rate to be playable you can even crank up the quality settings a little bit and sit around that 30 FPS mark with a few nicer effects the end result here is surprisingly good news for the Rison 5 2500 you of the 9 graphically intensive modern triple-a games I looked at only four games will flat-out unplayable with a Vega a GPU and on the other hand games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 and GTA 5 are surprisingly playable at decent enough quality settings while civilization sixes performance makes it a great option for portable gaming this is in stark contrast Intel's basic integrated graphics which was unable to play any modern game and even crashed in a couple of titles at least when I looked at their seventh gen CPUs in mid 2017 and to be honest it's a similar story with the 8th gen line - as Intel didn't really upgrade the GPU in any meaningful way it's quite clear at this point if it wasn't already the rasma bar has a massive GPU performance latest generation of course this video and part one you can clearly see what this means for ultra portable laptops games that weren't previously playable become playable which is great news for those that want to play a few rounds in tiles like fortnight Civilization 6 or Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the go it should be an even better story with the Rison seven 2700 you so once they get my hands on a laptop with the 2700 you inside I'll revisit this collection of games to see if we can increase the quality levels a little bit but it is tough to source any laptops with Rison inside as they're a rare breed right now but the quality of the apu compared to AMD's previous offerings will hopefully lead to more rising laptops in the coming months if you are interested in buying one of the few rising laptops on the market right now we have some Amazon links to those in the description below but otherwise that's it for now and I'll catch you next time you