Benchmarks: Overwatch, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Examination Organisation Specs

  • Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.fifty GHz (Skylake)
  • Asrock Z170 Z170 Extreme7+
  • 16GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3000
  • Samsung SSD 850 Pro 2TB
  • Silverstone Strider Series ST1000-G Development
  • AMD Crimson Edition 16.half-dozen.ii Beta (RX 480)
  • AMD Cherry Edition 16.six.ane Hotfix
  • Nvidia GeForce Game Prepare Commuter 368.39
  • Windows x Pro 64-bit

Overwatch doesn't require a groovy bargain of GPU ability for high frame rate performance, so it's no surprise that the Radeon RX 480 delivers simply that at 1080p. With an average of 136fps, the RX 480 managed to just outperform the GTX 970 and substantially lucifer R9 390. Folks coming from the R9 380 can await forrard to a 48% performance increase, while GTX 960 owners volition receive 53% more performance.

Jumping up to 1440p nosotros all the same notice highly playable performance as the RX 480 is again able to lucifer the R9 390 and top the GTX 970 by four%. R9 380 owners are looking at more than a xl% performance boost and almost lx% for GTX 960 owners.

Fifty-fifty at 1080p the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt provides a claiming for those wanting to proceed the frame charge per unit higher up the magical 60fps marking. With HairWorks disabled the RX 480 can do just that and in fact hither it was able to lucifer the R9 390X while being x% faster than the R9 390 and 17% faster than the GTX 970. That'south a seriously impressive event and it would bring a threescore% performance boost to R9 380 owners and twice the performance for anyone rocking a GTX 960.

The functioning hit when moving up to 1440p wasn't that huge and while we are at present below 60fps, the performance is nevertheless acceptable. Interestingly the RX 480 falls backside the R9 390X at this resolution to friction match the R9 390, though information technology was 16% faster than the GTX 970.