Saturday, January 26th 2019
Anthem VIP Demo Benchmarked on all GeForce RTX & Vega Cards
Yesterday, EA launched the VIP demo for their highly anticipated title "Anthem". The VIP demo is only accessible to Origin Access subscribers or people who preordered. For the first hours after the demo launch, many players were plagued by servers crashes or "servers are full" messages. Looks like EA didn't anticipate the server load correctly, or the inrush of login attempts revealed a software bug that wasn't apparent with light load.
Things are running much better now, and we had time to run some Anthem benchmarks on a selection of graphics cards, from AMD and NVIDIA. We realized too late that even the Anthem Demo comes with a five activation limit, which gets triggered on every graphics card change. That's why we could only test eight cards so far.. we'll add more when the activations reset.
We benchmarked Anthem at Ultra settings in 1920x1080 (Full HD), 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 (4K). The drivers used were NVIDIA 417.71 WHQL and yesterday's AMD Radeon Adrenalin 19.1.2, which includes performance improvements for Anthem.
At 1080p, it looks like the game is running into a CPU bottleneck with our Core i7-8700K (note how the scores for RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti are very close together). It's also interesting how cards from AMD start out slower at lower resolution, but make up the gap to their NVIDIA counterparts as resolution is increased. It's only at 4K that Vega 64 matches RTX 2060 (something that would be expected for 1080p, when looking at results from recent GPU reviews).
We will add test results for more cards, such as the Radeon RX 570 and GeForce GTX 1060, after our activation limit is reset over the weekend.
Things are running much better now, and we had time to run some Anthem benchmarks on a selection of graphics cards, from AMD and NVIDIA. We realized too late that even the Anthem Demo comes with a five activation limit, which gets triggered on every graphics card change. That's why we could only test eight cards so far.. we'll add more when the activations reset.
We will add test results for more cards, such as the Radeon RX 570 and GeForce GTX 1060, after our activation limit is reset over the weekend.
134 Comments on Anthem VIP Demo Benchmarked on all GeForce RTX & Vega Cards
I guess the amd driver was not game-ready for anthem after all.
For 1440p RTX 2080 and 1080Ti are sufficient and the only option for 4K is RTX 2080Ti @2GHz+/16Gbps~.
I'm a bit disappointed by the performance though, I couldn't get a consistent 60FPS on my GTX 1080 at 1440p. the overall look of the game is fine but it looks dated in some aspects.
Why no 1080 in the benchmarks?
Release is in a month and this is the state it's in? LOL. Another joke ruined by EA is what I see.
It runs very well on nvidia cards,amd just have to follow with another driver.If they followed your logic their cards would be a broken mess in most of current gen games.
In case you're wondering, b/c you don't pay attention to anything, AMD has no trouble with frostbite. But bioware cocked it up, anyway.
Vega 64 is only half as fast as a 2080Ti at 4K.
Don't get me wrong, AMD should certainly prioritize making the best drivers possible, and there might be some marginal gains to be had here. But their focus on "optimizing" is by manipulating the games (which Nvidia also does), and I'm sure that if they reallocated these resources on actual driver optimizations, they could get some gains.
But still, any driver optimization to unlock a massive gain is highly unlikely.
They've had problems with dx11 overhead since I can remember myself running a 7870 and then r9 290 on an i5 2500k.In BF1 they only used their cards to the fullest in DX12. It shows here and they have to fix it.
I'm not interested in this game but if the 590 gets 68fps at 1080p, overclocked my 570 could get 60fps at least I think. Not terrible.
I shouldn't even respond to this sort of baiting but look at 1070 and Vega 64 at 1080p. See,they're not usually equal.
Lol,I can't help myself laughing at how offended amd apologists got upon seeing these results and me saying that it needs a driver. sure,why not,let the driver team off the hook,why have them work on improving it when you can have even more fun complaining about it here.
The AMD cards are providing playable experiences in the game at max settings, at least according to the Average FPS numbers. So the dig at AMD's driver is in itself low-quality bait. Jeeze there's some AMD hate on the internet. (fanboys).