Destiny 2 Beta: Performance Analysis

W1zzard · Aug 29, 2017

Bungie's new smash-hit Destiny 2 is in Beta now, and we took a closer look at its graphics options and performance. We're happy to report that there is no FPS cap, and FOV can be adjusted, too. Joining our test group of 14 cards are the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64, with slightly surprising performance numbers.

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ZeppMan217 · Aug 29, 2017

An RX 580 doing worse than a GTX 970?

0x4452 · Aug 29, 2017

Glad they stuck with DX11. I don't like Microsoft pushing their new stuff to lock you into Windows 10. There is nothing wrong with DX11 as I've explained in other posts.

johnnyfiive · Aug 29, 2017

Game runs pretty good if you turn some stuff off. It runs fine on my XPS 9560 with a crappy GTX 1050 (until it throttles due to it being a laptop). I was getting 40-70FPS in both the campaign and mutiplayer with some stuff turned down at 1080p.

vega22 · Aug 29, 2017

open beta starts today if you want to see how it runs for you

https://www.destinythegame.com/beta

only lasts till the weekend i think, but yeah...

bug · Aug 29, 2017

I'm disappointed this was tested with HDR off. HDR is supposedly a thing of beauty in this game, it would have been nice to see what's required to drive it.

Raevenlord · Aug 29, 2017

Just adding a Ryzen, GTX 1070 point for comparison:

Runs smooth as silk on my system @ 2560*1080, locked 60, render resolution @ 125%. No frame skipping, perfectly fluid.

bug said:
I'm disappointed this was tested with HDR off. HDR is supposedly a thing of beauty in this game, it would have been nice to see what's required to drive it.

W1zzard's screen doesn't support HDR. From what I've read, HDR support in this game is great out of the box, but its actual effects in image quality isn't up to what is expected.

notb · Aug 29, 2017

ZeppMan217 said:
An RX 580 doing worse than a GTX 970?

Maybe it's been mining for the last few months.

Or maybe GTX 970 simply ages better...

bug · Aug 29, 2017

Raevenlord said:
W1zzard's screen doesn't support HDR. From what I've read, HDR support in this game is great out of the box, but its actual effects in image quality isn't up to what is expected.

I figured that was the reason (looking for a nice 4k HDR monitor myself, but they're priced out of this world), but it would still be nice to know the overhead it brings

HM_Actua1 · Aug 29, 2017

Low FOV????? 105 horizontal or vertical? makes or breaks it for me.

Raevenlord · Aug 29, 2017

Hitman_Actual said:
Low FOV????? 105 horizontal or vertical? makes or breaks it for me.

105 Horizontal.

It's not that limited, is it?

Edit: Just download the Beta and test it.

eddman · Aug 29, 2017

@W1zzard
Could you post the total system RAM usage while gaming (not the game process memory usage), please?

kinjx11 · Aug 29, 2017

i have to say HDR works quite well , but it needs to be on windowed fullscreen

xkm1948 · Aug 29, 2017

ZeppMan217 said:
An RX 580 doing worse than a GTX 970?

nVidia FineWine confirmed

bug · Aug 29, 2017

ZeppMan217 said:
An RX 580 doing worse than a GTX 970?

Now that's just mean. Just let the RX580 be superseded by a couple more generation and watch it gain a whopping 10% more performance. Then you'll know you've got your money's worth.

zAAm · Aug 29, 2017

ZeppMan217 said:
An RX 580 doing worse than a GTX 970?

Should probably improve with the next driver update...

Franzen4Real · Aug 29, 2017

I was pleasantly surprised by the graphics in this beta. I thought that it may have a little bit more of a console look to it, but I have to agree with the review in that it looks "very good" for a game today. I really liked some of the lighting, water, and depth of field effects (usually I'm much of a fan of DOF or motion blur). Ran awesome on a Strix 1080 @ factory OC of 1809Mhz boost clock & 5820K @ 4.0ghz, 2560X1440.

Now Asus needs to bring out the dang PG35VQ monitor... Destiny 2 supports 21:9 and HDR and I think the game would be a great showcase for it. I was really hoping they would have it released in time for the game launch... I can't wait to grab one!!

Agony · Aug 29, 2017

Happy to see that Vega 64 is getting better over time, now its faster than GTX 1070 .

Mr.Newss · Aug 29, 2017

Expected a Ryzen CPU to be there beside the Core i7 7700K.

notb · Aug 29, 2017

Mr.Newss said:
Expected a Ryzen CPU to be there beside the Core i7 7700K.

What for?
This is a GPU review. @W1zzard mentioned many times that testing is very time consuming and he tries to choose a system that bottlenecks the GPU as little as possible (and not very exotic/expensive at the same time). Today 7700K is perfect for that. Tomorrow it could be 8700K or 7740X or maybe even a Threadripper.

Mr.Newss · Aug 29, 2017

notb said:
What for?
This is a GPU review. @W1zzard mentioned many times that testing is very time consuming and he tries to choose a system that bottlenecks the GPU as little as possible (and not very exotic/expensive at the same time). Today 7700K is perfect for that. Tomorrow it could be 8700K or 7740X or maybe even a Threadripper.

Oh sorry, didn't know that.
Thanks for mentioning!

xkm1948 · Aug 29, 2017

1060 Trading blows with FuryX. Welp, so much for the AMD's FineWine.

arbiter · Aug 30, 2017

It's good to see that there is no 60 FPS cap. In the V-Sync options you may choose between "30 FPS", "60 FPS", and "Off".

on mine i have option for 144fps in that field.

Lionheart · Aug 30, 2017

Get some drivers out AMD Jesus Christ come on :banghead:

bug · Aug 30, 2017

Lionheart said:
Get some drivers out AMD Jesus Christ come on

They already have (August 24): https://www.techpowerup.com/download/amd-radeon-graphics-drivers/

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