WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.319 Yeah, setting up with some things and stuff. I gotta make sure that it doesn't 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 00:00:08.639 --> 00:00:15.920 kind of fun surprise type things. I don't know how well I'm going 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:19.920 to be able to conceal this one. It sounds like Stormtrooper armor. Oh, 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:24.160 it's not Stormtrooper armor, but that's a very good idea. How inconspicuous do I 00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:29.000 look? Okay, I'm ready whenever. Okay, 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:32.840 one, two. 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:39.280 Man, this is going to suck. Dragon Age Inquisition had a 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:42.399 pretty minor bug here or there, but there's nothing too difficult to get out 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:45.680 of and nothing that was necessarily game-breaking either. At least nothing 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:50.399 that I came across that was gamebreaking. What was interesting about 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:54.640 the game was that this included Mantle and the difficulties that come with 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:59.239 that. If you want to see uh more silly challenges like this, like Lionus doing 00:00:56.800 --> 00:01:03.680 a review in full body paint, stay subscribe to 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:19.360 Lin. Save on select Intel CPUs, Nucks, 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:23.920 and SSDs with special Black Friday rebates from select retailers. Click now 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:27.200 to learn more. And thus began our adventure of 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:31.759 benchmarking with Mantle. The first hurdle was found after I had finished 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:36.720 all of my NVIDIA testing using Fraps. Mantle doesn't exactly play nicely with 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 00:01:45.399 --> 00:01:51.079 solution. You shot him in this game. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.880 Just the tip just to see if it 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:05.360 hurts. Enter FCAT. When we're trying to record 4K, we found out that our capture 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:11.680 card doesn't support RGB input. Unfortunately, by the at the same time, 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:14.080 AMD cards didn't support YCBCR output. 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 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:22.879 they supported that. Uh what? But it didn't really matter 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:27.280 because they would both have to work regardless. And after all of this, the 00:02:24.959 --> 00:02:31.440 final proverbial nail in the coffin was that the FCAT overlay required for 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:36.640 recording these frame times doesn't natively work in Mantle either, just 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:41.440 like the Fraps overlay doesn't as well. DICE actually hacked support for FCAT 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:48.160 into Battlefield 4, a solution that Boware as of this point has not included 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:48.160 in Dragon Age Inquisition. 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:55.280 We're done. Which brought us to our final 00:02:53.040 --> 00:02:59.640 solution. Regrettably, we had to use the built-in benchmarking utility, which 00:02:57.480 --> 00:03:04.000 unsurprisingly doesn't seem all that precise. And it runs through the same 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:08.959 canned sections of the game at a super speed and then spits out a minimum 00:03:06.239 --> 00:03:13.280 average frame rate in about 40 seconds or less. The results of these tests 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 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:26.920 the benchmarks. Whereas usually with our own benchmarks, anything from above 0.1 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:26.920 to 0.2 is completely unacceptable. 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 00:03:31.760 --> 00:03:39.120 fine, though, guys. No, it's fine. Keeping those issues in mind, our 1080p 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:44.480 results were quite linear. Something to note here is that while the 290X is 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:50.080 behind the 780 Ti in averages, it actually beat it in minimums by 0.1. But 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:55.480 still, it's important to note because losses in minimum FPS is much more 00:03:52.560 --> 00:04:00.239 noticeable than anything else. The story with 4K was more or less 00:03:58.239 --> 00:04:05.519 the same. But please note that I had settings quite hard to demonstrate the 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:09.519 uh ability for Dragon Age Inquisition to push your system. If running this is a 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:12.959 little bit difficult for you on your own, definitely just turn down the 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. Just 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:22.960 like with 1080p testing, the results were quite linear and the minimums for 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:30.160 AMD were actually noteworthy with 290X beating the 780 Ti by 0.6 in averages, 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:32.120 but by a whopping 2.2 in minimums. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:36.639 Speaking of things that perform really well, I had to catch those and I'm happy 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:40.800 I did because we actually needed to segue into our sponsor spot. 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