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welcome back to hover unbox today I've got a let's play for you as we check out a new title called strange Brigade did I say let's play I of course mean let's benchmark before I get to the loads of results that I have for you what is strange Brigade and why am i benchmarking it I have to admit until a few weeks ago I had never actually heard of this game although it was announced ahead of III 2017 I personally hadn't caught wind of it until recently when a media announced their raise the game bundle which is a game bundle they include with the Radeon rx Vega series the rx 580 and even the rx 570 in case your honor where the game bundle includes three upcoming games Assassin's Creed Odyssey star control origins and strange Brigade the promotion's currently active and all run until the 3rd of November 2018 and it's valid for those purchasing one of the aforementioned radio and graphics cards via direct ad inboard sales OMS and system integrators as for strange Brigade well in short it's a cooperative third-person shooter developed and published by rebellion developments the cart mode supports four players and put some in roles of 1930s era tomb raiders I suppose think Indiana Jones the story goes something like this there is an ancient and long dead Egyptian queen set a key who's been raised from the dead by some evil ritual in addition to Queen set akise revival mummies zombies minotaurs and giant Egyptian gods populate the land there's loads of killing using conventional means such as guns and grenades but characters have access to magical powers which help to obliterate the baddies more efficiently the actions also broken up a bit by puzzles that often involve shooting moving breaking or otherwise interacting with the environment I've played for about an hour roll up now and even solo it's just a heap of fun so I imagine with friends it's gonna be pretty amazing anyway this video is more about harbour performance so let's talk about that and I've spent about 48 hours playing the same section of the game over and over again now so yeah that's my idea of fun I know I'm a simple man they gave support to directx12 and Vulcan and we'll be kicking off the testing by comparing the radiant and GeForce GPUs using either API and then we'll go from there strange Brigade does include a demanding built-in benchmark which I found to deliver frame rates that were at least fifteen percent lower than the most demanding section of the game that I ran into within the first hour of gameplay anyway normally I'd go for the more demanding tests but both AMD and NVIDIA GPU suffered a bit of stuttering during the built in benchmark and this really hurt frame time performance now this is an issue I never actually saw when just playing the game so I decided to measure performance using a manual 60-second in-game pass and reported the average and 1% low result for the most part I will be using the ultra quality preset and testing takes place at 1080p 1440p and 4k I'll also be enabling async compute which improves performance for the Radeon GPUs by about 5% and then just a couple of percent for the GeForce GPUs and I will look at those numbers towards the end of the video the game also supports Amy's free sync to HDR technology but that isn't something that we'll be testing in this video as usual I'll be using my GPU test rig which is built inside the corsair crystal 570 X and comprises of a core i7 87 Eric a clock to 5 gigahertz with 16 gigabytes of vengence ddr4 3400 memory for the GeForce GPUs the 398 e 2w hql driver was used and for AMD the Radeon adrenaline 18-point 8.2 driver which is an optimized driver for strange Brigade so please note we are testing the game with a game ready driver from AMD but not from Nvidia so it is possible the Green Team might see a performance uplift with a future driver release though performance does appear pretty spot-on as you're about to see ok so before we get too far into it let's compare the DirectX 12 and Vulcan performance using a few select AMD and NVIDIA GPUs whichever API offers each team the best performance is the API I plan to use for that particular team and as you can see here DirectX 12 looks to get the nod at least at 1080p the GTX 1080i is 11% faster using DirectX 12 and we see an even larger performer uplift for the standard 1080 the performance is more even with the RX Vega GPUs but even here Vega 64 was 6% faster using DirectX 12 and we see much the same with Vega 56 as well even at 1440p we see that DirectX 12 offers the Radeon GPUs a slight performance bump while the GeForce GPU enjoyed a rather significant performance increase I should also note that AMD provided me with some of their own numbers and they also confirmed that both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs offer greater performance across the board using DirectX 12 finally at 4k performance is much the same for the radio and GPUs using either API so at this extreme resolution it doesn't really matter too much which API use if you have a Vega graphics card however GeForce owners will certainly want to stick with DirectX 12 as it offered an 18% increase for the TE ti and 24% for the standard 1080 okay so that settles that I'm going to conduct all further benchmarks in this video using DirectX 12 as it offers the best results for both Radeon and GeForce owners of course I will continue to monitor the performance of both api's in the future but if you see us using DirectX 12 exclusively for strange Brigade then you'll know why it's because it offers better performance just quickly here's a look at the impact async compute has by testing with it enabled and disabled as you can see the Radeon GPUs receive a 5 percent performance boost while the GeForce GPU is only see a 2 percent boost in either case not massive but I suppose every bit does help right so here are 20 current generation AMD and NVIDIA GPUs tested at jep using the DirectX 12 API and the ultra quality preset so if you're hoping to enjoy Strange Brigade in all of its glory and keep frame rates above 60fps at all times at 1080p what kind of hardware are you looking at well for that you'll want at least a Radeon rx 570 or GTX 1063 gigabyte which I have to say is very reasonable both pushed an average of around 90 fps in our tests and a 1% low figure of over 60 FPS that most impressive we also see similar performance from the Radeon rx 580 and 6 gigabyte GTX 1060 for low-end models such as the rx 560 and GTX 1050 we'll likely want to reduce the quality settings just a little bit and we will explore that later in the video I'll also include a whole heap of older generation GPUs as well using the medium quality settings for now though let's move to the 1440p results and have another look at the current generation GPUs even here the mid-range GPU still provide very playable performance but for high refresh rate gaming you will want at least a Vega 56 or gtx 1070 graphics card the leap from the gtx 1080 to the 1080i is a massive 35% and we saw both the 1080i and tight necks destroy vega 64 liquid vega 56 was at least competitive with the gtx 1070 and 1070 STI so that's something then at 4k you really need the gtx 1080i and i have to say the experience was very impressive 91 FPS on average at 4k you don't really see that too often especially in a game it looks as great as strange brigade gameplay really was incredibly smooth as you'd expect with a 1% lower result of 75 FPS it's possible in other sections of the game that the frame rate will drop lower now the inbuilt benchmarks certainly suggest that but i can't imagine you'd be getting anywhere near unplayable levels so strange brigades certainly appears very well optimised so let's move on to see how the previous generation GPUs handle it for those of you rocking a previous generation GPU you still can look forward to some pretty solid performance when playing Strange Brigade at iupi using the ultra quality preset the r9 390 beat out the GTX 970 deliver 88 FPS on average opposed to 81 FPS interestingly the r9 390x really wasn't much faster than the non ex model and while edged ahead of the GTX 980 for the average frame rate the frame time performance was much lower jumping to 1440 P and here we see the gtx 970 and r9 390 are still getting it done but ideally gamers will want a gtx 980 or better it's very interesting to note that AMD's r9 nano does much better than the gtx 980 while the fury range isn't that far behind the gtx 980ti of course you can overclock the gtx 980ti for a further 20% performance boost but still for stockers the fury doesn't look too bad here then at 4 okay we see well playable the previous generation of flagship GPUs really aren't going to cut it for 4k gaming that said we're used to seeing the 4 gigabyte HBM fury and nano GPUs absolutely tanked at 4k but here they actually beat the gtx 980ti by a reasonable margin so that's certainly a surprising result and finally time to break out the magnifying glass for all you mobile phone viewers if you've got an 85 inch TV this graph might contain some useful - harder what we have here are all the current and previous generation GPUs lumped together at te P if you'd like to go over this data and more thoroughly feel free to pause the video and take a closer look then we have slightly fewer GPUs at 1440p as the entry level models have been dropped due to extremely low frame rates so this graph is slightly easier to read without a projector again if you want to study the graph a bit closer feel free to hit the pause button then at 4k we've weeded out the slow coaches and now we have just 23 GPUs to check out that said if you're after a smooth 4k experience your options are very limited moving on here is a quick look at scaling performance using the for quality presets with the geforce gtx 1066 Gilbert and Radeon rx 588 gigabyte at 1440p we've already seen how these GPUs perform using the ultra quality settings but here we are able to drop down to the high preset and that does boost both GPUs by an additional 10% then the medium quality preset allows for an additional 24% performance boost and then the low a further 22% increase so those with Lawren gps certainly have plenty of wriggle room to boost up those frame rates oh and before I forget here at the old bangers along with a few current and previous generation mid-range and entry-level options using the medium quality preset at 1080p here we have 17 very old GPUs mixed in with 13 current and previous generation GPUs down the bottom of the graph we see the GeForce GTX 580 mixing up with the GT 1030 it's pretty crazy to see the old Radeon r9 290 smashed the GeForce GTX 780 Ti though the GTX 780 r9 2 and HD 7970 are all comparable there's a few other graphics cards in that I have a look at so again if you want to take a closer look just feel free to pause the video and well take a closer look well I hope that helps those of you who are wondering how well strange Brigade would run your PC frankly I'm really impressed with what we've seen here the game appears to be very well optimised and it's not just well optimised for AMD hardware but also Nvidia hardware which is great to see from an AMD sponsored title in fact this is becoming somewhat of a common trend I have to say and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed that every game AMD has a hand in developing turns out to be extremely well optimised and not just for a MIDI hardware but for NVIDIA hardware as well and basically to enjoy this game and all of its glory at 1080p and push over 60 fps at all times or at least for the most part based on our little benchmark pass all you need is an rx 570 or GTX 1063 gigabyte coincidentally if you've just so happened to be in the market for a new mid-range GPU and happen to wanna play strange regard and are also keen on star control origins and Assassin's Creed Odyssey then AMD's raise the game bundle couldn't have come at a better time right now the RX 570 is priced at $200 u.s. which isn't a bad deal given the GTX 1063 gigabyte is currently selling for around two hundred and twenty dollars u.s. better yet though throw in a $130 u.s. worth of games and you end up paying just $70 u.s. for the graphics card assuming you plan on buying all three titles that is I still even if you were to only buy one of these tiles that's still a pretty solid deal anyway I'm not trying to sell you on at rx 570 graphics card I'm sure it sounds like it but I'm not Oh any Radeon graphics card for that matter I just think that it's a really good deal and if all of these stars were to align for you then yeah it's an extremely good deal anyway if I can't sell you on a Radeon graphics card how about a rise in CPU I kid of course but AMD did point out that strange Brigade includes rise and optimizations something that we will test at a later date the games compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 which contains optimizations and improved for modern processes like horizon additionally multi-threaded command buffer generation accelerates rendering by distributing work onto multiple logical processors AMD says as a result gameplay is virtually indistinguishable from competing processes from Intel again I will compare AMD and Intel CPUs in this title at a later date but for now based on what I saw with the 8700 ok it's fair to say that this isn't a really CPU demanding title anyway so it may not be particularly good for benchmarking AMD and Intel CPUs perhaps though that will change in the later stages of the game it may become more demanding there or perhaps with more players but before I get a chance to play any more strange Brigade or any other games for that matter I really need to finish the corsair 1000d build aka coffee rip up as you can possibly see here I don't know if it's in shot on the camera very well but I've installed both the 360 millimeter front radiators and all 16 4 hands so that's quite impressive and then I've got the 400 I think it is 420 millimeter radiator in the top so that's there I've only got two fans that'll explain that in the video and then I've got the blocks installed I'm about to do the graphics cards they're floating around somewhere anyway that video was meant to land today or tomorrow I've obviously postponed that bigger they started benchmarking on Friday and benchmarked all throughout the weekend to get this video done in time for Monday so you've got that to look forward to it's gonna be a pretty awesome build and I'm excited to get into it as for this video if we did enjoy it feel free to hit the like button for subscribe if you want to see more content just like this and if you're pretty shot with your hammer box and maybe you could consider supporting us on patreon you get access to a monthly live stream and discord chat where to myself are always hanging around and up for a chat and yeah as always thanks for watching I'm your Harry Steve and I suppose I'll see you again soon at least I hope I 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