Radeon Crimson Driver December 2016 Performance Analysis - Performance Testing

Performance Testing

So we'll go through our software benchmark suite. We'll test the Radeon RX 480 at the usual resolutions and settings. I am not going to explain all quality settings, again these are similar to our reviews. Overall as such they are the highest quality settings with some sort of AA enabled.

First off, we do not normalize results to say a minimum 40 FPS for the axis, hence the results are what they are and do not show limiting x-axis results to a starting point of say 40 FPS like some websites do (it clouds the picture of the actual real performance). Our charts start at a proper 0 FPS, not 40 or whatever to make the perf scaling look bigger.  

So on this page I wanted to start off with just 1080p, aka Full HD aka a monitor resolution of 1920x1080. an RX 480 was designed for specifically this monitor resolution. You are going to notice two things here, the first one is simple ... throughout the four tested drivers (and remember we time-scale from the launch driver up-to the ReLive driver) we hardly see any performance benefit. There are a couple of instances where you'll see like a 2 to 3 FPS increase in performance. This means from the oldest to the newest driver the performance increases max out at roughly 2 to 3 %

The second thing you we can extrapolate from the result set it is this, we can see the best optimized PC game title. Battlefield 1 runs terrific numbers at 1080P and as such is THE BEST console port. Perhaps it is true what EA stated, the develop the game on the PC and then actually port is down to consoles. And hey, it shows. 

The worst optimized titles then would be Watch Dogs 2, Mafia III and Dishonored 2. Everything however always is relative towards GPU, resolutions and image quality settings. SO that you will need to weigh in at all times. Let's move on-wards to WQHD and Ultra HD.

While the Radeon RX 480 certainly wasn't intended as a Wide Quad HD title (2560x1440), it certainly remains to be a capable one. We see similar behaviouristics in performance increments. However since the framerates are lower then 1080p, so will be the performance increase (relative).