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hey guys welcome back today hardware unbox we're checking out the titanfall 2 performance with a nice selection of GPUs we have 22 on hand including the the new 1050 and 1050 Ti graphics cards I've stacked these all neatly here just to show you how many cards we have tested and I've been trying not to knock them over but in case the testing doesn't turn out to be that exciting let's just do a an expensive domino effect for those of you unaware titanfall 2 is a hot new first-person shooter developed by respawn entertainment and published by Electronic Arts this is the sequel to 2014's titanfall and like the original it uses the source game engine the game looks quite impressive on PC that has to be said the recommended specifications are quite steep the developer suggests at least a chorus and ridore equivalent processor and surprisingly there's no mention of AMD's FX series as for the graphics card they say a geforce gtx 1066 key or AMD Radeon rx 488 gigabyte is recommended I find it interesting that they recommend the 8 gigabyte 480 over the more cost-effective 4 gigabyte model perhaps this suggests the games are v rmp meanwhile for those wanting to game at 4k the developer recommends a core i7 6700 K coupled with the GTX 1080 so pretty run-of-the-mill stuff here then right also for those of you wondering titanfall 2 uses the DirectX 11 API as usual for these benchmarks we've used our overclocked core i7 6700 K system and both AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards were tested with their latest drivers testing takes place at three resolutions and we're reporting the average and minimum frame rates from an average of three benchmark runs each of which lasts 60 seconds here's a quick look at the quality settings used for testing Before we jump to a preview of the benchmark pass and then finally onto the results as a side note for testing we've set the difficulty to easy as this makes the player next to invincible allowing us to take the same path through the test each time without risk of dying - but you're in bad shape hobo fine knock you out you should be okay when you wake up last the most hostile Titans in round apex predators copy that maintain mercenary hey down let's go starting with the previous generation GPUs we find pretty solid performance at RDP particularly given we are using near enough to the maximum image quality settings even the GTX 950 average forty four fps and never dip below 34 fps for an average of 60 FPS gamers will require an r9 280x and for a constant 60 fps the r9 390 will be required those gaming at 1440p you will want at least an online 380 to stay above 30 fps though a GPU such as the r9 390 will deliver a considerably more desirable experience surprisingly even the gtx 980ti and fury x couldn't stay above 60 FPS at all times here as we know using maximum quality settings and the latest triple-a titles doesn't really allow for playable performance at 4k using a previous generation GPU here we see both the 980ti and fury x dipping below 30 fps at times the current generation GPUs take things for the next level while most of them do anyway the RX 460 struggles even at 1080p dipping down a 30 fps in both the 2 gigabyte and 4 gigabyte flavours the new GT x 1050 was slightly better though the ti model is about as slow as I would go here meanwhile we see next to no difference between a 3 gigabyte and 6 gigabyte 1060 models but it is interesting to note that the RX 470 is able to match these graphics cards jumping to 1440p gamers will require either a gtx 1060 or our x4 70 / 4 80 all 4 produced similar performance rendering between 54 and 58 FPS on average if you want to stay above 60fps at all times then it looks like the GTX 1080 is still the best solution as suggested by the developer those wanting to play at 4k will require the GTX 1080 or the Titan XP the latter is a nice option if you're a Saudi prince and/or a small youtube channel owner ok guys get at your specs for this one as we move to the mixed results I'm sorry about the tiny font here I'm not sure if there's a better way to do this but this is how I display the results for now anyway the results look pretty much as expected the GTX 980 was slightly faster than the GTX 260 while the RX 470 almost matched the r9 390x though the minimum frame rate was a bit lower here we see that the current and previous generation mid-range offerings are enough for playable performance at 1440p we probably didn't need this graph but what the hell it is the best possible argument for selling a vital log and surprisingly titanfall 2 doesn't appear all that CPU intensive the single-player portion of the campaign only placed around 20% load on our overclocked core i7 processor here we see the load is mostly spread across four cores with the other four doing half as much work for those of you thinking it'll be a totally different story in the multiplayer portion of the game well we have good news for those rockin low-end CPUs for the most part CPU utilization again hovered around the 20% mark though at times that climbed as high as 30% albeit very briefly before wrapping things up let's take a quick look at how the RX 488 gigabyte compares with the GTX 10 63 gigabyte yes the 3 gigabyte model we have already seen the benchmark results so we know the numbers but I thought it'd be interesting to see how the 3 gigabyte model performs in comparison to an 8 gigabyte card testing does take place at 1080p but similar margins were again seen at 1440p as you can see despite the game allocating up to an over 4 gigabytes of vram this didn't seem to hinder the 3 gigabyte 1060 the image quality wasn't scaled back either like what was seen in Gears of War 4 at least not to the point where I could notice in our benchmark for those wondering the MSI gaming X versions of each graphics card were featured in this test you sick bastard well there you have it guys titanfall 2 appears very well optimized it certainly doesn't require a monstrous GPU for playable performance of resolution such as 1080p or even 1440p for that matter the demand on the CPU isn't particularly high either and I suspect core i3 and even like AMD FX or quad-core apu owners won't have any troubles either well that's about it from me guys I hope you enjoyed the video and the testing was useful if you have any feedback suggestions comments whatever leave them below and we'll see you on the next benchmarking adventure 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 thankfully Matt's unconscious right now I don't think you need to know about this so we'll just keep it our own little secret thanks guys