AMD has launched a brand new on-line GPU comparability device and it much less biased than you would possibly suppose. Sure, that absolutely seems like a backhanded praise, however we do not truly imply it that method. As any fellow geek can attest, we are usually a jaded bunch relating to a producer’s personal benchmark information and claims. However in an effort for “full transparency,” AMD’s graphs evaluating Radeon RX 6000 and GeForce RTX 30 collection graphics tilt in each instructions, relying on the sport.
There are some nuances that we’ll talk about, however at a excessive degree overview, the comparability device presents 4 pull down menus to assist customers evaluate graphics playing cards from each firms. They embody “Sport Title,” “Display Decision,” “Setting,” and “API,” every of which is self-explanatory.
While you make your alternatives, a graph beneath is up to date in actual time with AMD’s personal benchmark figures, and you may toggle between “FPS” and “FPS/$” comparisons.
“All efficiency numbers have been generated and verified by testing in AMD inner labs,” AMD explains.
There are 11 widespread video games to match. A number of of them are what we’d contemplate to be ‘AMD pleasant’ comparable to
Murderer’s Creed Valhalla,
Resident Evil Village, and
Forza Horizon 5. So you may argue that there’s truly some bias within the sport alternatives, however they do not all the time favor AMD over
NVIDIA within the supplied benchmarks.
There are some oddities, although. In a number of benchmarks, AMD’s information has the
GeForce RTX 3090 dropping to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. We did not observe that in our testing. It is value noting that within the wonderful print, AMD says its information “might comprise technical inaccuracies, omissions and typographical errors, and AMD is beneath no obligation to replace or in any other case appropriate the data.” That mentioned, the numbers for essentially the most half do not see out of whack to us, however undoubtedly maintain that in thoughts.
As to these nuances, the roundup of playing cards just isn’t constant throughout all of the pull-down choices. In case you drop right down to 1920×1080, it is a smaller choice of GPUs within the mid-range and decrease finish segments. To be honest, players contemplating a
Radeon RX 6950 XT-tier GPU in all probability have increased decision gameplay in thoughts, like 4K or 1440p. Nonetheless, it might be good if AMD fleshed these graphs out.
There’s additionally no analysis of ray tracing efficiency, which typically favors NVIDIA’s GPUs, or upscaling applied sciences (DLSS and FSR). Which means customers usually are not getting a whole image of efficiency or efficiency per greenback.
That is all to say, this device just isn’t an alternative to unbiased opinions with broader evaluation. Nevertheless, AMD deserves kudos for the extent of transparency on show right here, because it might have aggressively cherry picked the info to solely or largely favor its personal GPUs. It did not go in that route.
