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Dragon Age Inquisiton pre-release benchmarks

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Carfax83

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PCGH did a pre-release benchmark preview of the game, and as expected, the game performs better on AMD hardware than NVidia at this time.

Also, Mantle is making a fair bit of difference. We'll see whether NVidia can close the gap or not, but AMD is definitely coming out strong..

I'm a bit disappointed at the weak tessellation factor in the game though, but I suppose I should have expected that since it was sponsored by AMD.. :whiste:
 
I'm never impressed with AO in games, I mean compare here:

No Ambient Oc
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2014/11/DragonAgeInquisition_no_AO.jpg-pcgh.png

Full (assumed extra) AO
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2014/11/DragonAgeInquisition_HBAO_Full-pcgh.png

If its like in other games, its ~25% performance hit to run with maxed AO. Worth it? Meh.

However, I am very impressed with the expansive environments, its going to definitely make DAI a lot grander in scope than previous titles.

Frostbite is just so flexible since I saw them run BF4 on iOS, so it can scale on anything.
 
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Did not realise that mantle worked straight away on release , usually it's weeks or months after. Maybe because it's frostbite engine

Wonder how well it will run on my i5 & 280x combo at 1440p. Anything above 30fps and I am happy

I'll buy this next month I think
 
davie jambo said:
Did not realise that mantle worked straight away on release , usually it's weeks or months after. Maybe because it's frostbite engine

Wonder how well it will run on my i5 & 280x combo at 1440p. Anything above 30fps and I am happy

I'll buy this next month I think
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Looking at the 1440p numbers in the above benchmark, you are going to have to turn down settings a lot.

Even top cards like the 980 and R290X barely maintains 30 fps.
 
Silverforce11 said:
Looking at the 1440p numbers in the above benchmark, you are going to have to turn down settings a lot.

Even top cards like the 980 and R290X barely maintains 30 fps.
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Going down to 2xMSAA or disable MSAA will be able to run at 30+ fps at 1440 res i believe.
 
Yeah I might have to lower some settings , don't think you need too much AA on when you're running higher resolution

We will see next month or so when I buy the game
 
It annoys me that they are not testing with the 780. Very few people have the 780Ti so that comparison is not worth much outside the theoretical realm.
 
45% better CPU performance with Mantle sounds awesome

CakeMonster said:
It annoys me that they are not testing with the 780. Very few people have the 780Ti so that comparison is not worth much outside the theoretical realm.
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We still get a hint based on how the other Kepler GPUs are performing though.

I'm personally more interested in seeing more cards from AMD's and Nvidia's older series/architectures being tested, all the way down to the minimum specs
 
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Yup, kind of pointless benchmarking at maxed out detail settings on cards which can only crank out 18fps. I'd like to see them try toning down the detail a bit, seeing what compromises are needed to get acceptable performance.
 
Carfax83 said:
PCGH did a pre-release benchmark preview of the game, and as expected, the game performs better on AMD hardware than NVidia at this time.

Also, Mantle is making a fair bit of difference. We'll see whether NVidia can close the gap or not, but AMD is definitely coming out strong..

I'm a bit disappointed at the weak tessellation factor in the game though, but I suppose I should have expected that since it was sponsored by AMD.. :whiste:
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Having little dig at AMD there by Nvidia user,at least no coil whine like 970s well known for 😉 ,personally surprised even the fastest video cards don't do that well.

I'll test out mantle later on my recently acquired AMD card (coming from Nvidia).
 
Silverforce11 said:
Looking at the 1440p numbers in the above benchmark, you are going to have to turn down settings a lot.

Even top cards like the 980 and R290X barely maintains 30 fps.
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PCS+ R9 290X at 1050 Mhz gets avg 34.3 fps min 32 fps with MSAA 4x. With a bit of overclocking the R9 290X OC can hit 40 fps with min above 35 fps. so the game is definitely playable with MSAA 4x. btw this game is not a fast paced shooter. Its an action RPG and 40 fps should do fine. thats good performance for a GPU which sells for as low as USD 320. :biggrin:
 
The 290 series has been doing really well in recent games. 290X seems to be quickly dropping the 780Ti.
 
Skurge said:
The 290 series has been doing really well in recent games. 290X seems to be quickly dropping the 780Ti.
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Noticed that too. Some recent games the 290X is beating the 780ti but perhaps it is Nvidia shifting it's focus towards Maxwell
 
Skurge said:
The 290 series has been doing really well in recent games. 290X seems to be quickly dropping the 780Ti.
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yeah in recent games like Ryse Son of Rome, Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, Civilization Beyond Earth, Alien Isolation, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and Dragon Age Inquisition the R9 290 series is performing extremely well.
 
Visually the game is stunning. Best looking RPG I've seen. I hope the game is a lot more fun than DA2 was. Will pick this one up if so. The Frostbite engine is incredible, between Frostbite and Cryengine there is nothing as impressive.

Hopefully there is SLI support at launch. Nvidia has been failing hard with their SLI support lately, still no SLI for Mordor...
 
raghu78 said:
yeah in recent games like Ryse Son of Rome, Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, Civilization Beyond Earth, Alien Isolation, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and Dragon Age Inquisition the R9 290 series is performing extremely well.
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Engine optimization work for the 8th gen consoles could be paying off dividends too.

I game at 1440p myself . . . those numbers make me 🙁
 
NTMBK said:
Then buy the boxed game from Amazon. It's £10 cheaper anyway, and should get delivered on launch day.
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Still have to use origin......and seriously origin isn't that bad actually has some features Steam doesn't have and I've gotten several games free from it 🙂

I can't wait for Dragon Age....🙂
 
Spjut said:
45% better CPU performance with Mantle sounds awesome



We still get a hint based on how the other Kepler GPUs are performing though.

I'm personally more interested in seeing more cards from AMD's and Nvidia's older series/architectures being tested, all the way down to the minimum specs
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Sound awesome, but where are you seeing this? I see 12% or less difference with mantle at 1080p and no difference at all at 1440p.
 
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