PCWorld – August 2019

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blows well past its own namesake as

well as the Radeon RX Vega 64.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Shadow of the Tomb Raider ($60 on

Humble at go.pcworld.com/shdw)

concludes the reboot trilogy, and it’s

utterly gorgeous. Square Enix

optimized this game for DX12, and

recommends DX11 only if you’re using

older hardware or Windows 7, so we

test with that. Shadow of the Tomb

Raider uses an enhanced version of

the Foundation engine that also

powered Rise of the Tomb Raider.

No surprises here, aside from how

hard the new Supers curb-stomp the

competition (including their non-

Super cousins). Vega 56 isn’t even in

the same weight class.

Ghost Recon Wildlands

Move over, Crysis. If you crank all the

graphics options up to 11, like we do

for these tests, Ghost Recon Wildlands

($50 on Humble at go.pcworld.com/

recn) and its AnvilNext 2.0 engine

absolutely melt GPUs, even with a

sequel due later this year. It’s by far the

most strenuous game in our suite,

even with newer stunners like The

Division 2 in the mix. Ghost Recon

Wildlands prefers Nvidia’s GPU

architecture in general.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider
(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

70

58

72

83

81

88

106

36

30

36

44

44

47

60

105

88

108

117

117

125

135

1080p 1440p 4K

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)

Ghost Recon Wildlands
(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

51.7

45.6

52.5

58.6

56

61.1

73.7

32.3

27.4

32.9

36.6

36.7

38.9

48.4

64.9

58.9

65.7

74

65.7

75.7

87.8

1080p 1440p 4K

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)