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
88
78
88
92
91
95
96
48
42
51
57
62
61
76
101
86
102
105
98
108
109
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)
Strange Brigade
(Frames per second)
LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE
103
87
105
121
130
130
163
60
49
61
71
80
74
92
143
125
149
164
178
173
218
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)