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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is going to be about using the new AMD RX 480 in ultrawide monitor configuration so 2560 by 1080 or 30 440 by 1440 the reason I decided to do this video was I just got through about two weeks of pretty much constant GPU benchmarking I did the 1070 the 1080 as well as our X 480 so running that many benchmarks in succession can cause your brain to sort of start to melt a little bit and I lose the ability for abstract thought so I thought hey for today let's keep things a little bit more informal let's actually have me play the games rather than just run a few short benchmark segments that I run through over and over again and I got a configuration set up back here to show you guys the ultrawide monitor while also showing the real time at benchmarks and frame rate as I run the games so here's my testing area where I have spent way too much time over the past couple weeks over on the left is just the streaming system I use that to do some capturing and whatnot and then the testbed which is right here which is of course outfitted with the AR X 480 running nice and quiet if you hear any noise right now it's probably the actual DES fan for the CPU which is running at a much higher rpm because my CPU is overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz and I haven't bothered to go in and adjust that fan speed very much to be honest anyway at 21 by 9 monitor this is a soup redditor x 34 so 34 40 by 1440 is a native resolution I can also run it at 2560 by 1080 and I am going to be capturing the gameplay not directly on the system because I think that would affect the actual benchmarks but I'll be capturing it directly with my camera here and then I've also outfitted a little ol webcam right there just a Logitech c920 that's going to be pointing at the area of the screen where the actual framerate shows up using msi afterburner and the overlay that you can set up on there that is my setup though I'm going to start playing some games I think we'll start off with some GTA v also gots a doom loaded up and then I'll don't choose another random one to throw in there to starting out with some Grand Theft Auto 5 here I'm at the lower resolution 2560 by 1080 right now and I'm trying to hit my hundred Hertz refresh rate frame rate for this so I actually started out with everything set up to very high like I do with my we'll benchmark comparisons but out to the turns with stuff down and I'm doing a little bit better I'm getting closer to the mid to upper-90s I try to adjust a few more things here in the graphic settings see if we can't get it up over a hundred doing a little bit better now up over a hundred averaging so that's that's pretty sweet so in order to hit a hundred frames per second I basically did the settings like so 2560 by 1080 I was actually pretty okay hitting about 60 frames per second at least 55 to 60 with my Albury high settings like I usually do in a benchmark but to hit 100 I had to basically turn msaa off I also turned the shader quality shadow quality reflection quality down to high as well as water particles and grass so most of these I keep it very high I just switch them down to high and now got that extra frames per second cut inside right there oh oh no no yes indeed you tell them Franklin to see I'm strategically adjusting the velocity of my vehicle by crashing into these signposts at regular intervals Oh goddamnit I do not take those walls very well oh come on they're a totally I see the guys in front paid the guys in back to sandbag me oh you son of a bitch you son of a bitch oh my god Wow oh shit no oh I'll thank God for the vapid bullet there we go exit though let's switch back to 334 40 by 1440 don't forget that get there first straight back up 200 Hertz we do it and see how this goes now I haven't switched my settings back to very high and everything because I just I know that I'm not going to hit that's those same numbers at this resolution so already were tricked we've dropped down to 69 to 70 this I would say would be a good setting for 34 40 by 1440 with this graphics card because at least if you're going for 60 Hertz or 60 frames-per-second see if I can make some more adjustments though and get back up to 100 your FIV buddies they know you're back in business FIV buddies what are you talking about I checked out the WPP thing it doesn't look like any WITSEC program I'm aware of the captain's do first off I'm going to have a difficult time talking while I play this game second operat flirty a little over 30 frames per second also that is not in the right place so you guys can't see what frames per second is okay we're 34 40 by 40 and 40 right now I just started and with that's ultra look doing hey we're hitting between 30 and 40 per second right now is pretty much where we're at help still not getting that great of a framerate No it was actin finicky but I've gotten it to run at 2560 by 1080 so I am getting much higher frame rates and now around 100 a hundred frames per second mark it sometimes goes above that sometimes dips a little bit below but as far as settings go I'm still set to the low settings or actually yeah mostly low have to put AF at 2x I guess this is where we're supposed to go for my third game here I've chosen Tomb Raider or rise of the Tomb Raider I'm not doing DirectX 12 mode because I'm not sure what that will do to my overlay resolution starting out the 2560 by 1080 I'm gonna see how things go if you'll trade love like nothing I'm fine just trying to turn pure hair off Oh God a couple more settings changes storms getting closer we have a couple hours at most should be enough time we're almost to the top I had some up above 60 frames per second which is good I would be fairly confident playing at this at these settings if I was at a 60 Hertz monitor this is 100 smarter though as I probably already mentioned in this video so let's try to jump up a little better let's try the medium preset I can make it I guess we died she keeps doing that I think what I'm going to do next is see if low settings get us over 100 frames for seconds still only at 80 there was something in Dad's research about this alright so switched up to Rebecca 3440 by 1440 now just kind of see what frame rates would be like I'm still on the lowest settings options and I'm hitting about 45 to maybe in the most 50s starts bring their skills it's amazing there were two here to get inside so they have a guys from 21 by 9 gameplay with the AR X 480 I would say 34 40 by 1440 was a bit more of a stretch for this graphics card definitely had to tune down the settings quite a bit to get playable framerates 2560 by 1080 though very viable and definitely would consider that as an option for any of you guys we're looking for both the new graphics card and a new monitor hope you have enjoyed it I want to know from you guys what you think of this particular type of benchmark video there's the more formal type where I run a bunch of different cards and have very strict settings for everything and then I do charts and all that then there's this where it's just like hey what settings do I need to run at in order to get this graphics card to play at this framerate on this monitor resolution I definitely see value to both methodologies but it's difficult to do them both in the same video so maybe I'll just keep doing separate videos with each different one anyway if you enjoyed this video hit the thumbs up button leave me that comment in the comment section below and let me know what you think and of course as always thank you for watching