PCWorld – August 2019

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frames-per-second average. As Nvidia

promised, the RTX 2060 Super is effectively

tied with the original RTX 2070’s

performance, while the RTX 2070 Super lands

within spitting distance of the RTX 2080. And

RIP Radeon VII? The $499 GeForce RTX 2070

Super surpasses AMD’s $699 flagship at

every resolution tested.

Far Cry: New Dawn

Another Ubisoft title, Far Cry: New Dawn

drags Far Cry 5’s wonderful gameplay into a

post-apocalyptic future of its own, though this

vision is a lot more bombastic—and pink—

than The Division 2’s bleak setting. The game

runs on the latest version of the long-running

The Division 2

(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super (FE)

AMD Radeon VII

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super (FE)

temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) enabled to
push these high-end cards to their
limits. If anything differs from that, we’ll
mention it. We run each benchmark at
least three times and list the average
result for each test.
We’ve added a couple of new
games to our testing suite (The
Division 2, Far Cry: New Dawn) and
removed a handful of others
(Rainbow Six Siege, Far Cry 5,
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation,
Middle-earth: Shadow of War).
We’re hoping to add Metro Exodus
to the mix in future reviews but
were unable to do so for this one
due to severe time constraints.

GAMING BENCHMARKS
The Division 2
Let’s start with the latest games. The Division 2
is one of the best looter-shooters ever
created, and the luscious visuals generated by
Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine make it even
easier to get lost in post-apocalyptic
Washington D.C. The built-in benchmark
cycles through four “zones” to test an array of
environments, and we test with the DirectX 12
renderer enabled. It provides better
performance across-the-board than the DX11
renderer, but requires Windows 10.
This game’s Ultra preset makes graphics
card weep, with not even the vaunted
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti hitting a 60