The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright
by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on August 14, 2017 9:00 AM ESTDawn of War III
A Dawn of War game finally returns to our benchmark suite, with its predecessor last appearing in 2010. With Dawn of War III, Relic offers a demanding RTS with a built-in benchmark; however, the benchmark is still bugged, something noticed by Ian, as well as by other publications. The built-in benchmark for Dawn of War III collects frametime data for the loading screen before and black screen after the benchmark scene, rendering the calculated averages and minimum/maximums useless. While we used the benchmark scene for consistency, we used OCAT to collect the performance data instead. Ultra settings were used without alterations.
A note on the 1080p results: further testing revealed that Dawn of War III at 1080p was rather CPU-bound on our testbed, resulting in anomalous performance. Due to the extreme time constraints, we discovered and determined this very late in the process. For the sake of transparency, the graphs will remain as they were at the time of the original posting.
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coolhardware - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
I think that is actually why they went with that headline.As vladx's comment, AnandTech is not a joke. They put a lot of hard work into what they do and they have been doing it for decades. Anand's early work helped me build my first PC and they have continued to do a good job after his departure to Apple.
I for one am very appreciative of all Anandtech's efforts :-)
vladx - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
"I think that is actually why they went with that headline."Nice spin, only a fool would buy into that sort of bullshit reasoning.
coolhardware - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
Then I am a fool.Have a nice day :-)
sor - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
That was actually the very first thing that came to mind when I saw the article "burning... I see what you did there".Oxford Guy - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
You're not the only one.Ryan Smith - Monday, August 14, 2017 - link
I almost didn't go with that headline specifically because I was afraid too many people wouldn't get it.It's a shining moment for AMD in terms of architectural advancement. It's also a rather hot card in terms of heat dissipated.
vladx - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link
Like I said it's a really nice spin, if anything Polaris was the architecture that was shining brightly not Vega which is a clear regression compared to Fiji. So I'm sorry Mr. Smith, but I refuse to take you and any AT writer for that big of a fools and it's clear from other reviews as well that everyone is trying their best to polish the turd called VEGA.Beany2013 - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link
Narrator:In reality, VladX was incredibly hurt that he didn't get the joke, as so many others managed to, and had made himself look like a fool.
vladx - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link
A joke at AMD's expense is nothing to laugh about, so color me extra doubtful.FourEyedGeek - Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - link
Why be so immature?