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guys. Welcome to my Thief benchmarking overview video. We're going to be
testing things today on the standard test bench of 4960X clocked at 4.0 0
GHz, about 16 gigs of RAM clocked at 1866 MHz, and a variance of GPUs whose
overclocking settings you can find in the GPU overclocking dock linked below
this video. So, I broke up the graphics cards into three tiers. There's the
extreme tier with $500 plus graphics cards, which is running on very high
preset with one thing changed so that it goes to custom, which is anotropic
filtering at 16x running at 1600p.
That's the crazy tier. Then one step down, we've got around 300 to $400 tier
where we're running just on the very high preset at uh 16x inotropic
filtering, but at 1080p, not 1600p like
the tier above. And then one step down, which is where we're running at 1080p
again, but just on the high preset and no custom values at all. And that's at
about the $150 $170 range. Two things,
guys. These numbers are very subject to change. NVIDIA and AMD will assuredly be
releasing drivers in the future as they always do and they will probably be
including optimizations for Thief. So, both of these numbers for either teams
could go up in varying amounts. We're not entirely sure, but for now, you can
just use it as kind of a educated guess on how well this card will perform in
the future if you do buy one or if you have one already. Also another thing is
these numbers were pulled from neweag.com which is an American website
and especially AMD cards pricing on this website is very skewed because in the
states especially pricing for AMD cards has gone a little bit nuts because of
coin mining. So if you're someone who's not in the states looking at this video,
maybe a card falls into another bracket. So I would highly suggest checking out
and comparing the dollar value of these cards on your own, especially if you are
outside of the States.
All right, guys. So, here's the benchmarking run so you guys can either
replicate it on your own or just see generally what I'm doing. We start just
outside of the main hideout in Thief. And then, well, this isn't a crazy
action game or is it supposed to be played as a crazy action game. So,
unlike a lot of my benchmarks, I'm not going to run around killing as many people as I can within the 2 minutes.
I'm actually just going to kind of go around and do some things that you might
do in Thief for 2 minutes. And you'll notice that not a fair amount of it is
actually just looking in different places or like crouching at certain
times and crouching through certain areas. That's mainly for timing so that
I can actually easily replicate this run. As you can see here, I've actually
already looted this house on a previous playth through, but I knew exactly where
the house was and I knew I could navigate through it quite easily, so I
went back there for this play through. Just stay alert
once I get through this window here. Uh, I had to save a few times to find a
proper save for this as there's two guards in this courtyard. I can't waste
a ton of time trying to sneak around the guards because that's not going to be
the easiest thing to replicate. So, I try to find a save file where I could actually do this properly. So, if you're
trying to replicate this on your own, you might have to save a couple times to try and make sure that the guards are in
the right spot. But, it's not too bad.
rock teeth.
One thing I use is the sweep mechanic, as you saw right there, um, which is
built into the game to actually traverse without being seen too easily.
I try to get light late areas, dark areas, uh, sweeping mechanics,
crouching, running, walking, all that kind of stuff in this benchmark to try
and show all the different things that you'll probably be doing in Thief quite
actively. We're nearing the end now after we climb down this ladder.
And as we run up the stairs, we're coming right to the end. We're going to
crouch here and then shift through the light. And the benchmark should end
right about here.
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