AMD outted a press-release today. Rebellion has released the latest installment of its celebrated series, SNIPER ELITE 4, extensively tuned for the Graphics Core Next and Polaris architecture to deliver exceptional multi-GPU performance.

Press-release

In a world where smooth gameplay is a matter of life and death, PC gamers will benefit from up to 100% mGPU scaling with the Radeon RX 480 at 1440p.

Radeon Graphics provide excellent efficiency, performance and mGPU scalability in Sniper Elite 4, with support for advanced DirectX 12 features, including:

• Asynchronous Shaders: the Asynchronous Compute Engines in AMD’s GCN and Polaris architectures can submit commands without waiting for other tasks to complete, leading to is vastly improved GPU efficiency that boosts graphics processing performance, helps reduce latency, and enables consistent frame rates.

• Multi-GPU: mGPU experiences have been redeveloped for DirectX 12, pushing for greater utilization of each GPU in a multi-GPU configuration. AMD’s GCN and Polaris architectures lead with greater performance and scalability in multi-GPU DirectX 12.

As someone who is not usually a stealth gamer, I do have a soft spot in my heart for the Sniper Elite series.  Rebellion has honed their craft perfectly for the fourth installment of the series which places you in Italy circa 1943. This version offers a DirectX 12 mode and leverages async compute for owners of Radeon graphics cards.  In a few cases I tried out, it ended up providing some really nice frame rate boosts, the difference of playing below 60 fps, to playing nicely above 60 fps.

To play this game at decent settings, the requirements are:

• OS:Windows 7 64bit / 8.1 64bit / 10 64bit
• Processor: AMD FX4300 or Intel Core i3 or greater
• Memory:4 GB RAM
• Video card: AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2GB) or greater

There are a lot of options in the graphics menu, and they are nicely contained in 4 presets, Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. For testing we played through the opening sequence of Sniper Elite 4, until I subdued the first 3 enemies, and made it up into a clearing.  The result was smooth gameplay on Radeon RX graphics cards, with high details and high resolutions PC gaming is known for.

We posted our graphics performance review yesterday, check that here.