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hello everyone I'm Dimitri with Huracan accent hello on the train what's wrong the hype train so yes no man's sky may be the biggest steam launch for 2016 it's a little bit crazy to think that but it sure has crushed so many expectations of many loaded with complaints red thumbs from the community so today we're gonna take a look at the two latest mid-range GPUs the Ark's 480 and the GTX 1060 and see which camp was more prepared with day one drivers for the game and which one gives us better performance this video is sponsored by audible.com get your free audio book with a 30-day trial at audible.com slash HWC I normally listen to podcast and read sci-fi novels but the massive selection of books and someone reading them to you it's quite appealing I've been listening the brain maker which is a fascinating story that connects the science of microorganisms in your gut to the health of your brain it's quite fascinating to listen to while I edit the videos visit audible.com slash HWC to get your free audio book with a 30-day trial happy listening in our previous video with the gtx 1060 versus the RX 480 we determined that the gtx 1060 on average was 8% faster at 1440p versus the RX 480 and this is based on 10 games in total so let's launch no man's sky and here's the run that I completed on both cards so I start by destroying these two lovely trees jump over to this mighty tree beside me laser these crystals for some more isotopes jump to this rock and activate my scanner and basically form a perimeter around the building using these large trees as my reference points of where to go then I jump into my Gabor ëokay s340 seriously who comes up with these stuff and proceeded to fly across this body of water until we hit the observation tower and fire some photo cannon into it then we'll exit the atmosphere facing the a little distant planet then turn towards the closest larger planet and activate my pulse Drive - which turning the ship around and observe this water planet so I feel this run is pretty fair giving us a good representation of the range in the performance realm we are on the planet on foot then we are in the spaceship and then we're in space and then we're doing the hyperdrives which basically surrounds your entire gameplay for no man's sky graphically it feels like this game should not be demanding as textures are basically non-existent draw distance is pretty poor so I ran to presets at 1440p with everything on high and then everything on medium as well the game was restarted to take effect to see how the cards would handle no man's sky and so at medium settings I was pretty surprised at how poor the game ran on average with the gtx 1060 giving us a whopping 40% better score with much better minimums some frame fluctuations are present on both cards this is not an optimized game in any way with much better performance while in space instead of the planet turning everything on high and on average the gtx 1060 performs 38% better but look at that minimum and how it lines up with the arcs for a DS average while experiencing smoother frame rates over time on the NVIDIA GPU another interesting test was VRAM usage for the gtx 960 consuming 3.7 gigabytes a full gigabyte more than the 2.7 on the rx 480 and so the conclusion is simple no man's sky is a poorly optimized game especially for aim the hardware giving us 40 percent less performance on the RX 4 80 versus gtx 1060 now hello games has hired the quality assurance team that is a larger than their developers team to solve a bunch of problems and here's hoping that we'll get a better driver update as no man's sky continues to be in the top 10 games by Steam player count so it's still fairly significant fairly fresh but I feel that you know excitement may dip quite significantly if it's not fixed for optimization so I hope you guys enjoyed this short video if you are playing no man's sky let us know what performance you're getting and if you're enjoying the game at all I'm a Dimitri with our Canucks thanks much watching we'll see you next video