AMD Radeon RX Vega beats GTX 1080 Ti by 23%; AMD cards do surprisingly well in Forza 7

AMD’s Radeon RX Vega cards were much awaited by the PC enthusiast community, hoping for an end to NVIDIA’s reign on the GPU market, myself included. The resulting cards from Radeon Technologies Group helmed by Raja Koduri are somewhat underwhelming. However AMD hardware is known to age like “fine wine” with driver updates as well as software updates helping to better take advantage of AMD’s architectures.

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It really seems that this is the case when the Radeon RX Vega 64 actually beats NVIDIA’s ultimate GeForce, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, by 23% in Forza 7 at 1080p. Even the RX Vega 56 has a 10% lead on the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 1080p! The RX Vega 64 still maintains a 12% lead at 1440p, only losing to the GTX 1080 Ti at 4K by 8%. Through all the benchmarks, the RX Vega cards maintains higher 99th percentile framerates, which bodes well for gameplay smoothness.

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The GeForce GTX 1080 which is the Radeon RX Vega 64’s target is consistently worse than the RX Vega 64, with choppier frametimes than the Vega 64. The Vega 56 also handily beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in all the resolutions tested.

It’s not really that surprising to see NVIDIA’s top cards lose to AMD’s GPUs at a DirectX 12 game. This is reminiscent of the AMD R9 290X besting the faster GeForce GTX 980 Ti in Ashes of the Singularity, yet another DirectX 12-capable game. Yet another factor that could be at play is Microsoft’s optimization for the Xbox, which also runs on AMD hardware.

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Pokdepinion: AMD’s lead in raw power as well as having its hardware in both the top consoles will definitely favor it when developers start optimizing their titles for AMD GPUs.