Wednesday, July 4th 2018
AMD Beats NVIDIA's Performance in the Battlefield V Closed Alpha
A report via PCGamesN points to some... interesting performance positioning when it comes to NVIDIA and AMD offerings. Battlefield V is being developed by DICE in collaboration with NVIDIA, but it seems there's some sand in the gears of performance improvements as of now. I say this because according to the report, AMD's RX 580 8 GB graphics card (the only red GPU to be tested) bests NVIDIA's GTX 1060 6GB... by quite a considerable margin at that.
The performance difference across both 1080p and 1440p scenarios (with Ultra settings) ranges in the 30% mark, and as has been usually the case, AMD's offerings are bettering NVIDIA's when a change of render - to DX12 - is made - AMD's cards teeter between consistency or worsening performance under DX 12, but NVIDIA's GTX 1060 consistently delivers worse performance levels. Perhaps we're witnessing some bits of AMD's old collaboration efforts with DICE? Still, It's too early to cry wolf right now - performance will only likely improve between now and the October 19th release date.
Source:
PCGamesN
The performance difference across both 1080p and 1440p scenarios (with Ultra settings) ranges in the 30% mark, and as has been usually the case, AMD's offerings are bettering NVIDIA's when a change of render - to DX12 - is made - AMD's cards teeter between consistency or worsening performance under DX 12, but NVIDIA's GTX 1060 consistently delivers worse performance levels. Perhaps we're witnessing some bits of AMD's old collaboration efforts with DICE? Still, It's too early to cry wolf right now - performance will only likely improve between now and the October 19th release date.
219 Comments on AMD Beats NVIDIA's Performance in the Battlefield V Closed Alpha
And with so many games either a dead tie or favoring nvidia, news of a game heavily favoring AMD performance wise is pretty unusual.
Slows news day, I guess lol
GPU shipments /= gaming market share. Yes, AMD is selling more cards, but cryptomining made up a huge number of their shipments. If that market falters, like it is starting to do, AMD would be in trouble.
Check out the steam GPU numbers, from a platform that well north of 90% of PC gamers use. While AMD has managed to go from 8.9 to 15% of the GPU market, Nvidia dominates with 74.3% of the market. That means for every AMD user, there are roughly 5 nvidia users. Perhaps even more damning, the 7700 series has more active GPUs then the RX480. A 6 year old low end GPU pair has more users then the 2 year old mid range flagship for AMD. And notice that Vega, a very useful mining chip, is completely absent from the list of active GPUs, suggesting that VEGA56 or 64 cards have less then 0.16% of the market on steam. By comparison, the geforce 1080 has 2.43% of the market, and the 1070 has 3.84%.
AMD shipments are up, as is steam marketshare, but not by nearly as much as you think, and when nvidia dominated 3/4ths of the market, and EVERY SINGLE PASCAL CARD INDIVIDUALLY (with the exception of the late comer 1030) has more active users then the most popular AMD card, and that AMD card is 6 years old, game developers are not going to pay AMD much attention.
We've yet to hear 300,000 GPUs being returned to AMD due to mining slow down. If they have, they are better at hiding it then Nvidia
Seeking Alpha: Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem
pricespy.co.nz/product.php?q=gtx%201060&p=3853855
The cheapest AMD RX 580 is $499(NZD).
pricespy.co.nz/product.php?q=rx%20580&p=4445327
MSI Radeon RX 580 DirectX 12 RX 580 ARMOR MK2 8G OC 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 Video Card , www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-137-290
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING, ACX 2.0 (Single Fan), 06G-P4-6161-KR, 6GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC), Only 6.8 Inches , www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-487-260
In the usa* just noticed the NZD
In other words you are in the wrong country lol. But not gonna hatw because new zealand is freaking awesome
GTX 1060 6GB MSRP 250$
Soo forget artificial prices made by mining craze :)
Anyone else wonder why only comparing GTX1060 and RX580? How about 1070/1070Ti/1080/1080Ti/Vega56/Vega64?
DX12 is a red herring. Even RX580 performs worse or at the best same as DX11. At the same time people in reddit/forums are still reporting stuttering in DX12 with both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
Ultra settings and cards were apparently ASUS ROG Strix versions:
www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b4418/asus-rog-strix-rx-580-gaming
www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b4226/asus-rog-strix-gtx-1060-gaming
@huguberhart Interesting, it appears AMD cards are even rendering more stuff (snow) while performing better (at the moment).
This also applies to @nguyen's comment, it seems the opposite may be true and the NV cards are maybe not rendering something/as much? By your own numbers that means AMD has nearly doubled their market share for (Steam) gaming then?
steam survive is bullshit. It asked me when i was runnig steam on my vm machine........... and it ask it randomly so this does not make a lot of sense to me
AFAIK the only DX12 game that is showing a noticeable and constant boost for DX12 over DX11 is Sniper Elite 4.
From more recent stories: Crew 2 has RX580 beating GTX1060 by a large margin:
www.hardocp.com/article/2018/06/27/crew_2_video_card_performance_iq_preview/4
I can show you a couple of games where the 1060 wipes the floor with the 580, starting with AC:O
Like Forza 7 and Destiny 2 before that, NVIDIA will release a driver that fixes the fps drop. Nothing to worry about mates.