PCWorld – August 2019

52 PCWorld AUGUST 2019

REVIEWS NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER AND RTX 2070 SUPER

Dunia engine, and it’s slightly more strenuous than Far Cry 5’s built-in benchmark. Although we start to see frame rates stall as the game becomes increasingly CPU-bound at lower resolutions with the most-ultra powerful graphics cards, the same trends continue as before: The Super duo kicks a lot more butt than their predecessors do, and the Radeon VII succumbs to the might of a graphics card that costs $200 less.

Strange Brigade Strange Brigade ($50 on Humble at go.pcworld.com/bysb) is a cooperative third-person shooter where a team of adventurers blasts through hordes of mythological enemies. It’s a technological showcase, built around the next-gen Vulkan and DirectX 12 technologies and infused with features like HDR support and the ability to toggle asynchronous compute on and off. It uses Rebellion’s custom Azure engine. We test the DX12 renderer with async compute off. This game adores Radeon’s architecture, and the Radeon VII manages to stave off the GeForce RTX 2070 Super for once—barely. But the $399 GeForce RTX 2060 Super

Far Cry: New Dawn (Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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Strange Brigade (Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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PCWorld – August 2019

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