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Quick test: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Adaptive Shading Benchmarks
A newly released patch for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus has been released and interestingly enough, it adds support for NVIDIA Turing's Adaptive Shading. The claims have been enticing, higher performance should be reached with this new technology.
With adaptive shading, an algorithm looks at the previous frame and then will determine which parts of the current frame can contain less detail without it having noticeable image quality loss (basically where you look with your eyes is shaded the best, the rest a little less). In areas where you hardly look with your eyes shading does not take place per pixel, but per 4 pixels.
-- Patch info -- A new patch has been deployed to implement NVIDIA Adaptive Shading, improving the performance of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. We’ve been working with NVIDIA to make sure the game runs great on NVIDIA RTX hardware. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus debuts the first implementation of NAS.
Additional patch notes:
- Added support for NVIDIA Adaptive Shading on NVIDIA RTX series GPUs. (Improves frame rate by dynamically adjusting the shading resolution in different areas of the screen, without affecting fidelity).
- Ensured that, on multiple GPU systems, the discrete GPU is preferred over an integrated GPU.
- Players can now choose to ignore/suppress warnings when the selected video settings exceed the amount of dedicated VRAM available on the GPU
- Fixes for skinning issues on GTX 970
The patch was released yesterday and I decided to see how much of a difference it really makes. In the test results below you can see the performance differences. The test has been conducted on our eight-core Haswell-E platform at 4200 MHz on all cores and a GeForce RTX 2080. Adaptive shading can be selected in the settings, at several stages. Off, quality, balanced and performance. You can also set a custom profile setting. Since full HD is CPU limited on the GeForce RTX 2080 we skipped that resolution, below 2560x1440 (WQHD) and 3840x2160 (Ultra HD) average framerates measured on a 30 seconds recorded run per preset and resolution.
We can confirm we see very little image quality degradation if you can notice it at all. We rendered at the Mein Leben! preset, customized with adaptive shading. From off to adaptive performance mode you are looking at roughly a 5% performance differential on a game that already is offering breathtaking framerates on any Turing based graphics card.
And per request, the same result set at a normalized scale:
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#5609053 Posted on: 11/20/2018 04:24 PM
It's a way to zoom in at perf differentials when they are small, but sure I can understand why you ask that. I have added normalized charts as well.
Graph should start at 0fps...
It's a way to zoom in at perf differentials when they are small, but sure I can understand why you ask that. I have added normalized charts as well.
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#5609057 Posted on: 11/20/2018 04:29 PM
so a couple of frames more ?
so a couple of frames more ?
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#5609063 Posted on: 11/20/2018 04:33 PM
Fairly small uplift in performance but with Wolfenstein 2 already running well on the RTX cards I guess it’s to be expected.
I’m looking forward to seeing what Doom Eternal runs like on these.
Fairly small uplift in performance but with Wolfenstein 2 already running well on the RTX cards I guess it’s to be expected.
I’m looking forward to seeing what Doom Eternal runs like on these.
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#5609079 Posted on: 11/20/2018 05:15 PM
Far, far better representation of the results in the normalized charts. Thank you HH.
It's a way to zoom in at perf differentials when they are small, but sure I can understand why you ask that. I have added normalized charts as well.
Far, far better representation of the results in the normalized charts. Thank you HH.
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#5609080 Posted on: 11/20/2018 05:16 PM
[QUOTE="I’m looking forward to seeing what Doom Eternal runs like on these.
Ah yes.....me too!!!
[QUOTE="I’m looking forward to seeing what Doom Eternal runs like on these.
Ah yes.....me too!!!
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#5609125 Posted on: 11/20/2018 07:14 PM
I expected more, but I think that it depends on developer's decision. And those ~5% is not bad, it may allow you to use some other effect you would otherwise opt to disable.
so a couple of frames more ?
I expected more, but I think that it depends on developer's decision. And those ~5% is not bad, it may allow you to use some other effect you would otherwise opt to disable.
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#5609134 Posted on: 11/20/2018 08:00 PM
Smart idea.
Let's hope we don't get the same complaints from a small number of people as with depth of field, i.e. simply not realising that normally we do not focus on anything other than what we are looking at.
Smart idea.
Let's hope we don't get the same complaints from a small number of people as with depth of field, i.e. simply not realising that normally we do not focus on anything other than what we are looking at.
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#5609142 Posted on: 11/20/2018 08:25 PM
Any visual difference?
Any visual difference?
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#5609177 Posted on: 11/20/2018 09:52 PM
'we see very little image quality degradation'
The tech works by reducing quality in areas you are less likely to notice.
It would be nice to see some real screenshots to show the difference in IQ at the different adaptive settings.
From the slide titled 'content adaptive shading':
This appears to show at least some loss of detail, but the original shots were not taken from the exact same perspective so it's hard to say for sure.
Any visual difference?
'we see very little image quality degradation'
The tech works by reducing quality in areas you are less likely to notice.
It would be nice to see some real screenshots to show the difference in IQ at the different adaptive settings.
From the slide titled 'content adaptive shading':
This appears to show at least some loss of detail, but the original shots were not taken from the exact same perspective so it's hard to say for sure.
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#5609212 Posted on: 11/20/2018 11:03 PM
So whole 3% improvement and worse image quality, no game changer at all, maybe it would be cheaper just decrease filtering quality with existing features for same effect
So whole 3% improvement and worse image quality, no game changer at all, maybe it would be cheaper just decrease filtering quality with existing features for same effect
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#5609219 Posted on: 11/20/2018 11:24 PM
Funny...I can't get the game to run while Afterburner is running. I get opening screens, then everything goes black. Steam forum for the game, other users have the same issue. To get the game to run, you have to shut down Afterburner (running the 4.6 latest beta for Turing)
Funny...I can't get the game to run while Afterburner is running. I get opening screens, then everything goes black. Steam forum for the game, other users have the same issue. To get the game to run, you have to shut down Afterburner (running the 4.6 latest beta for Turing)
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#5609222 Posted on: 11/20/2018 11:26 PM
Other reviews also noted no change in visual quality, but at least the tech works right?
And together with the other Turning performance enhancements should bring 4K @60 fps just a step closer for cards just under the ceiling.
Other reviews also noted no change in visual quality, but at least the tech works right?
And together with the other Turning performance enhancements should bring 4K @60 fps just a step closer for cards just under the ceiling.
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#5609224 Posted on: 11/20/2018 11:29 PM
Some guy said you need to delete the games config file.
Funny...I can't get the game to run while Afterburner is running. I get opening screens, then everything goes black. Steam forum for the game, other users have the same issue. To get the game to run, you have to shut down Afterburner (running the 4.6 latest beta for Turing)
Some guy said you need to delete the games config file.
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#5609251 Posted on: 11/21/2018 12:49 AM
Not a big fan of having to use "cheap" tricks on high end cards to increase performance... Although using tricks seems to be the only way forward because we are going to hit a wall regarding the size of future GPUs...
Not a big fan of having to use "cheap" tricks on high end cards to increase performance... Although using tricks seems to be the only way forward because we are going to hit a wall regarding the size of future GPUs...
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Can you not do graphs like this? I really think it is misleading.
Graph should start at 0fps...