Far Cry 4 Video Card Showdown
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
·
1,150 words · ~5 min read
0:00
Far Cry 4 has its fair share of odd bugs
0:03
but it was actually stable enough for us to properly test so welcome to our
0:07
graphics cards Showdown where we will give you guys the lowdown on which cards
0:11
perform best from AMD or from NVIDIA in this exciting new game also make sure
0:16
you're subscribed cuz we're going to do the same thing with Dragon Age Inquisition which also just launched
0:22
we'll be doing that very
0:28
shortly Corsair gaming RGB keyboards
0:32
feature Precision Cherry MX RGB key switches for 16.8 million color per key
0:37
backlighting for virtually unlimited customization click now to learn more
0:42
okay so like I said it's a little buggy vsync doesn't seem to always turn off
0:47
even when you tell it to and even forcing it off in the driver only
0:51
sometimes works I did notice however that if I tabed out of the game and then
0:55
tabbed back in vsync would properly turn
0:58
off pretty weird also the tearing was
1:01
insane some of the worst Jell-O like tearing I've ever seen but yet again if
1:06
you Tab out and then tab back in it fixes it permanently for that
1:10
playthrough at least if you want to see more about the different bugs and
1:13
specific settings in the game I would recommend checking out total biscuits
1:17
Port report for Far Cry 4 as he covers it very well we test all of our games
1:22
essentially right at launch because we know this is when many people will be
1:26
playing the game and it's when many people will be interested in whether or
1:29
not they're card will be able to run the game so sometimes there's optimization
1:34
issues for AMD or for NVIDIA in this
1:37
case NVIDIA has the upper hand with an extremely recent driver and both at
1:42
1080P and 4K there is an observable disparity between the two never fear
1:47
though AMD users I'm sure there will be a beta driver for you guys with an
1:50
update sometime soon but for now this is how your card will perform when running
1:55
at 4K we ran into some vram issues below 3 GB and even our 780 Ti with 3 GB of
2:00
vram was essentially maxed out also there's a little bit of a bug when
2:04
changing settings my settings for 4K was 3840 by 2160 and the high preset this
2:10
would result in some horrible performance andless I went back into the
2:14
settings afterwards and selected reset to defaults which changed as far as I
2:19
could tell nothing as it left the resolution and preset the same but this
2:25
did solve any odd performance issues I had and ran the game exactly as I
2:30
expected and before I show you guys the runs so you can see how your rig Stacks
2:33
up on your own I want to remind the longtime viewers that we are no longer
2:37
running our gaming benchmarks with overclocked graphics cards so these
2:41
cards will be running at their Factory clock speeds also for new viewers who
2:45
are wondering why we used a massively overclocked six core for our test bench
2:49
when that configuration is very uncommon it's because we want to minimize CPU
2:54
bottlenecks as much as we possibly can so that we can actually see the
2:59
performance differences is between these graphics cards themselves so now that
3:03
that's all out of the way I'll run you guys through our benchmarking run so you
3:07
can see how to do it on your own our run takes place right on the other side of
3:11
the door after you're released from dinner very close to the beginning of
3:14
the game the reason why this is pretty close to the beginning of the game is
3:17
one I didn't have a ton of time and two because you can't really manage multiple
3:23
saves there's a new game option which is nice coming from Unity but there's no
3:27
other option other than that once you get through this first door and
3:32
you skip the interrogation room this guy will talk to you for a little bit and
3:36
then lead you to the door at which point the action will really start this part
3:40
is a little bit deadly need to get you out of here safely no matter the
3:44
cost would understand now stay close a
3:48
fantastic
3:55
listener [ __ ] no way here the dog
3:58
quickly funny tidbit I actually have no idea what any of them say at this point
4:02
because I've never played the game with audio your down and make a run for the TRU move as fast as you can understand
4:08
yeah yeah I got it one two three all
4:13
right as they start pouring through the door your turn will come up last as you
4:17
come through the door it gives you a tip to run with shift at which you will do
4:21
that run down the hill watch the explosions do all that kind of stuff but try to Face Forward pretty much the
4:26
entire time and don't look anywhere to keep the framing similar for every one
4:30
of your runs getting into the car is simple by holding e not just by pressing
4:34
it so run up to the car and hold e as of this point you're pretty much done to be
4:39
completely honest as you are not driving the truck that you just jumped into and
4:44
you just kind of sit in side seat and shoot the gun but you don't even
4:48
necessarily have to as I don't think you can lose so far but either way we right
4:54
trigger to aim down sight and shoot at these guys a little bit and then just
4:57
drive on past one thing to remember is to keep your framing facing forward
5:01
however the entire time as we come up around this corner you'll see a whole
5:05
bunch of guys on quads come down the hill and right as the guy kind of rams
5:11
into the side of your truck the test will probably end right about there
5:15
these are 2 minute segments you will not make it around this corner all right
5:18
guys thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe if you want to see that Dragon Age Inquisition video which be should be
5:22
coming fairly soon uh like dislike
5:26
comment about what you think about Ubisoft because that's popular these
5:29
days subscribe share and jump over to the Forum talk to people there buy a
5:34
shirt which isn't from twitch and click on the support us link to change your
5:38
Amazon bookmarks to ours so we get a small Kickback whenever you buy things
5:42
thank you guys for watching and I will see you next time
6:00
oh