PC World - USA (2020-01)

JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 63

FreeSync/G-Sync—disabled, and temporal
anti-aliasing (TAA) enabled to push these 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’re including 1440p results as well, but really,
the GTX 1650 Super is built for 1080p gaming.
We tested the Asus ROG Strix GTX 1650
Super using its default Gaming
BIOS, clocked at 1,785MHz,
rather than its secondary Quiet
BIOS or the optional OC Mode
that requires installing the
company’s GPU Tweak II
software.

GAMING
BENCHMARKS
The Division 2
The Division 2 is one of the
best looter-shooters ever
created. 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.

Interesting tidbit: The Radeon RX 570

could barely run the Division 2 benchmark,

constantly crashing at 1440p resolution. We

suspect it’s because of the increased memory

demands of DirectX 12, paired with the GPU’s

slower 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The GTX

1650 Super’s GDDR6 memory, on the other

The Division 2

(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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1080p 1440p

Gigabyte Aorus

Radeon RX 570

Asus ROG Strix GeForce

GTX 1650 Super

Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX 580

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC Ultra

XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy

Far Cry: New Dawn

(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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1080p 1440p

Gigabyte Aorus

Radeon RX 570

Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super

Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX 580

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC Ultra

XFX Radeon

RX 590 Fatboy

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