1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,319 Yeah, setting up with some things and stuff. I gotta make sure that it doesn't 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:11,400 really know what's coming because some of my stuff is going to be kind of uh 3 00:00:08,639 --> 00:00:15,920 kind of fun surprise type things. I don't know how well I'm going 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:19,920 to be able to conceal this one. It sounds like Stormtrooper armor. Oh, 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:24,160 it's not Stormtrooper armor, but that's a very good idea. How inconspicuous do I 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:29,000 look? Okay, I'm ready whenever. Okay, 7 00:00:29,519 --> 00:00:32,840 one, two. 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:39,280 Man, this is going to suck. Dragon Age Inquisition had a 9 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:42,399 pretty minor bug here or there, but there's nothing too difficult to get out 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,680 of and nothing that was necessarily game-breaking either. At least nothing 11 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:50,399 that I came across that was gamebreaking. What was interesting about 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:54,640 the game was that this included Mantle and the difficulties that come with 13 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:59,239 that. If you want to see uh more silly challenges like this, like Lionus doing 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:03,680 a review in full body paint, stay subscribe to 15 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:19,360 Lin. Save on select Intel CPUs, Nucks, 16 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:23,920 and SSDs with special Black Friday rebates from select retailers. Click now 17 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:27,200 to learn more. And thus began our adventure of 18 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:31,759 benchmarking with Mantle. The first hurdle was found after I had finished 19 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:36,720 all of my NVIDIA testing using Fraps. Mantle doesn't exactly play nicely with 20 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:45,399 Fraps. And because of this, I had to toss all of my data and find a different 21 00:01:45,399 --> 00:01:51,079 solution. You shot him in this game. 22 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,880 Just the tip just to see if it 23 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:05,360 hurts. Enter FCAT. When we're trying to record 4K, we found out that our capture 24 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:11,680 card doesn't support RGB input. Unfortunately, by the at the same time, 25 00:02:07,759 --> 00:02:14,080 AMD cards didn't support YCBCR output. 26 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:18,680 Um, the case with NVIDIA was we didn't actually test it, so we didn't know if 27 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:22,879 they supported that. Uh what? But it didn't really matter 28 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:27,280 because they would both have to work regardless. And after all of this, the 29 00:02:24,959 --> 00:02:31,440 final proverbial nail in the coffin was that the FCAT overlay required for 30 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:36,640 recording these frame times doesn't natively work in Mantle either, just 31 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:41,440 like the Fraps overlay doesn't as well. DICE actually hacked support for FCAT 32 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:48,160 into Battlefield 4, a solution that Boware as of this point has not included 33 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,160 in Dragon Age Inquisition. 34 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:55,280 We're done. Which brought us to our final 35 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:59,640 solution. Regrettably, we had to use the built-in benchmarking utility, which 36 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:04,000 unsurprisingly doesn't seem all that precise. And it runs through the same 37 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:08,959 canned sections of the game at a super speed and then spits out a minimum 38 00:03:06,239 --> 00:03:13,280 average frame rate in about 40 seconds or less. The results of these tests 39 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:19,440 could v oh my goodness. uh it could vary anywhere from 0.5 to 2 FPS throughout 40 00:03:16,959 --> 00:03:26,920 the benchmarks. Whereas usually with our own benchmarks, anything from above 0.1 41 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,920 to 0.2 is completely unacceptable. 42 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:34,720 How's your hand? I kind of smoked you with Oh, it's bleeding. Sorry. Oh, it's 43 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:39,120 fine, though, guys. No, it's fine. Keeping those issues in mind, our 1080p 44 00:03:36,879 --> 00:03:44,480 results were quite linear. Something to note here is that while the 290X is 45 00:03:41,599 --> 00:03:50,080 behind the 780 Ti in averages, it actually beat it in minimums by 0.1. But 46 00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:55,480 still, it's important to note because losses in minimum FPS is much more 47 00:03:52,560 --> 00:04:00,239 noticeable than anything else. The story with 4K was more or less 48 00:03:58,239 --> 00:04:05,519 the same. But please note that I had settings quite hard to demonstrate the 49 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:09,519 uh ability for Dragon Age Inquisition to push your system. If running this is a 50 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:12,959 little bit difficult for you on your own, definitely just turn down the 51 00:04:11,599 --> 00:04:18,239 performance a little or turn down the settings a little bit and your performance will be a lot better. 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