Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Performance Analysis

W1zzard · Aug 23, 2016

Deus Ex Mankind Divided has just been released today. We bring you a performance analysis using the most popular graphics cards, at four resolutions, including 4K, at both Ultra and High settings. We also took a closer look at VRAM usage.

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Ferrum Master · Aug 23, 2016

Well... one thing is sure... I won't buy the game now :shadedshu:

, the thing is too demanding for my system.

qubit · Aug 23, 2016

Damn, I need to upgrade my 780 Ti SLI just because of the 3GB RAM limitation. I'm even noticing it at 1080p on CoD: Advanced Warfare when I turn the quality settings up, especially anti-aliasing and that's a 2014 game. Basically, the cards run out of RAM before they run out of performance. Quite sad to have to consider replacement just for this, really.

Ferrum Master · Aug 23, 2016

qubit said:
have to consider replacement just for this, really.

yeah, next year maybe there will be a capable card.

Dammeron · Aug 23, 2016

Deus Ex: MD - game about vampires...

Just watch the benchmark video - they don't have shadows!!!

rtwjunkie · Aug 23, 2016

@W1zzard Thanks for the Performance tests!

I see one error. You list the 980Ti as 8GB in the charts.

Looks like I will have to stick to "High" and not "Ultra" with my 980Ti so I can play at 60fps. Should still look awesome though!

red_stapler · Aug 23, 2016

Yeah, this probably isn't going to run too well on my 7950.

W1zzard · Aug 23, 2016

rtwjunkie said:
I see one error. You list the 980Ti as 8GB in the charts.

Fixed, thanks!

ZeppMan217 · Aug 23, 2016

I love these game reviews!

Also, at High settings, RX480 beats GTX1060 by 10 FPS and 7 at Ultra!? Was DXMD made with some AMD voodoo?

G33k2Fr34k · Aug 23, 2016

ZeppMan217 said:
I love these game reviews!

Also, at High settings, RX480 beats GTX1060 by 10 FPS and 7 at Ultra!? Was DXMD made with some AMD voodoo?

It's the same reason why the GTX 1060 beats the RX 480 in Rise of the Tomb Raider or The Witcher 3 IMO. AMD's GCN cards excel at general compute tasks since they have relatively more SIMD FP units than Nvidia's chips. So when a lot of the post processing and simulation effects are done using custom shaders that utilize these SIMD units, AMD's cards tend to do better.

The GTX 1060 does much worse against the RX 480 in Doom using the Vulkan renderer:

Joss · Aug 23, 2016

Thank you so much, wish we had (many) more of these.

Footman · Aug 23, 2016

Hmm, I was waiting for this game. looks like I'll need to sell my watercooled 980ti and buy a 1080 to get decent frame rates at 1440!!! Argg.....

Captain_Tom · Aug 23, 2016

ZeppMan217 said:
I love these game reviews!

Also, at High settings, RX480 beats GTX1060 by 10 FPS and 7 at Ultra!? Was DXMD made with some AMD voodoo?

Nvidia cards age horribly, and the 480 was 32% stronger than the 1060 in Vulkan - these are pretty much the exact results I expected.

What is crazy to me is that the 1070 is only like 20% stronger than the 480 in DX11!!! In DX12 they may be equal (Hence why AMD doesn't think it needs ultra cards yet).

Footman said:
Hmm, I was waiting for this game. looks like I'll need to sell my watercooled 980ti and buy a 1080 to get decent frame rates at 1440!!! Argg.....

The 1080 that won't even be stronger than the Fury X when the DX12 patch hits?! Frankly speaking you are better off waiting for the next Fury or just dealing with lowered settings.

Footman · Aug 23, 2016

Captain_Tom said:
The 1080 that won't even be stronger than the Fury X when the DX12 patch hits?! Frankly speaking you are better off waiting for the next Fury or just dealing with lowered settings.

Hmm, that's food for thought.

Captain_Tom · Aug 23, 2016

Footman said:
Hmm, that's food for thought.

Yeah no card out right now has caught up with the latest graphical demands :-/

kaspar737 · Aug 23, 2016

Captain_Tom said:
Nvidia cards age horribly, and the 480 was 32% stronger than the 1060 in Vulkan - these are pretty much the exact results I expected.

What is crazy to me is that the 1070 is only like 20% stronger than the 480 in DX11!!! In DX12 they may be equal (Hence why AMD doesn't think it needs ultra cards yet).

You do know this game uses the same engine as Hitman right?

Footman · Aug 23, 2016

So what comes after Polaris (480) then?

Lightofhonor · Aug 23, 2016

Footman said:
So what comes after Polaris (480) then?

481?

I'd expect at 490 by the end of the year, hopefully sooner.

Captain_Tom · Aug 23, 2016

kaspar737 said:
You do know this game uses the same engine as Hitman right?

Haha and? It also is the latest game with some of the best graphics, and again it isn't even using DX12 yet (Hitman only got these results with DX12 in use).

Maybe BF1 will prove that this isn't the new normal, but I highly doubt that.

Lightofhonor said:
481?

I'd expect at 490 by the end of the year, hopefully sooner.

490 will almost definitely be out by the end of the year, but I think it will be another GDDR card; unfortunately I don't want anything but Vega with HBM...

$ReaPeR$ · Aug 23, 2016

this is funny.. hilarious to be honest!

dyonoctis · Aug 23, 2016

Captain_Tom said:
490 will almost definitely be out by the end of the year, but I think it will be another GDDR card; unfortunately I don't want anything but Vega with HBM...

So far it looks like RX 400 will only consist of polaris (10,11) and Vega (10,11 too). Since we know that th RX 490 is a confirmed name, it will likely be vega (hence with HBM), since AMD didn't talk about a third family of chip.

64K · Aug 23, 2016

It's good to see a game putting a real challenge to current GPUs. Necessity is the mother of invention and we are going to need more powerful GPUs for max at 1440p and certainly at 4K if this continues. Time to bump up the performance a notch or two Nvidia/AMD.

Footman · Aug 23, 2016

I have some time to wait and see what Vega brings.

INSTG8R · Aug 23, 2016

WOW! I can't even get it to start... I hit "play" and it just crashes....I'm not even gonna look at the performance charts it will probably depress me even more...

rtwjunkie · Aug 23, 2016

INSTG8R said:
WOW! I can't even get it to start... I hit "play" and it just crashes....I'm not even gonna look at the performance charts it will probably depress me even more...

Now I'm curious, with my end goal merely to see if it starts.

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