Video recreation developer Rebellion is nicely diagnosed nowadays for their work at the Sniper Elite collection. Its brand new installment turned into properly acquired with the aid of game enthusiasts, getting a further increase in reputation because of nazi headshots and gruesome X-ray kill cam replays. Taking a page out of cooperative games which includes Left 4 Dead and their own Zombie Army Trilogy, Rebellion is bringing us nowadays 'Strange Brigade', a brand new co-op third-character shooter.

We should admit till a few weeks in the past we’d in no way heard of the sport. Announced beforehand of E3 2017, we didn’t trap wind of it until these days while AMD introduced their "Raise The Game" for those buying a Radeon RX Vega, RX 580 or RX 570 photographs card. In case you’re unaware, the sport package consists of 3 upcoming video games: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Star Control: Origins, and Strange Brigade. The promotion’s currently energetic and will run till November third. It’s valid for those buying one of the aforementioned Radeon pictures playing cards via direct add-in board sales, OEMs, and device integrators.

As for Strange Brigade, in quick it’s a co-op 0.33-character shooter, assisting 4 players with awesome abilties, placing them inside the roles of Thirties-generation tomb raiders, think Indiana Jones.

There’s hundreds of killing the use of traditional means including weapons and grenades, however characters additionally have get admission to to magical powers which assist to obliterate the baddies more correctly. The action’s broken up a bit by means of puzzles that frequently contain taking pictures, shifting, breaking, or otherwise interacting with the surroundings.

Gameplay aside, as typical we're going to be searching into hardware performance, so allow’s speak approximately that. Steve has spent about forty eight hours gambling the same segment of the sport time and again again, yeah that’s his idea of fun, Steve's a easy man.

The game supports DirectX 12 and Vulkan and we’ll kick the checking out off via evaluating the Radeon and GeForce GPUs the usage of either API and pass from there. Strange Brigade does include a disturbing built-in benchmark which I located to deliver frame rates that have been as a minimum 15% lower than the maximum annoying phase of the game I bumped into, within the first hour of gameplay besides.

Normally we’d go for the extra worrying test however both AMD and Nvidia GPUs suffered from a piece of stuttering on the built-in benchmark and this sincerely harm body time overall performance, an trouble we in no way noticed whilst actually playing the sport. So we decided to degree performance using a guide 60 2d in-recreation pass and record the common and 1% low result.

For the maximum element we're going to be the usage of the extremely nice preset with testing taking place at 1080p, 1440p and 4K. We'll additionally be allowing Async Compute which improves overall performance for the Radeon GPUs through about 5%. The game additionally supports AMD’s FreeSync 2 HDR technology, however that isn’t something we’ll be trying out with.

Our maximum latest GPU check rig become used comprising a Core i7-8700K clocked at 5 GHz with 16GB of DDR4-3400 reminiscence. For the GeForce GPUs the 398.eighty two WHQL motive force became used, and for AMD the Radeon Adrenalin 18.8.2 motive force that is an optimized driving force for Strange Brigade. So please be aware we're trying out with a recreation geared up driver from AMD however not Nvidia, so it’s feasible the green group would possibly see a performance uplift with a destiny motive force launch, although performance does appear pretty spot on as you’re approximately to peer.

Benchmark Time

So before we get too a long way into it, permit’s compare the DirectX 12 and Vulkan performance the use of a few pick AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Whichever API gives every crew the satisfactory performance is the API I plan to use for that precise crew and as you could see here, DX12 seems to get the nod.

The Radeon GPUs acquire a slight overall performance bump, whilst the GeForce GPUs experience a instead great overall performance increase. I should also note that AMD furnished us with some of their own numbers are they confirmed that each AMD and Nvidia GPUs offer more overall performance across the board the use of DirectX 12.

Just speedy here is a have a look at the effect Async compute has, by using checking out with it enabled and disabled. As you may see the Radeon GPUs get hold of a five% overall performance enhance at the same time as the GeForce GPUs simplest see a 2% overall performance raise. In either case no longer huge but each bit enables I bet.

Right so here we have the 1080p checking out using the DirectX 12 API and the ultra best preset. So in case you’re hoping to enjoy Strange Brigade in all of its glory and maintain frame quotes above 60 fps at all times at 1080p, what type of hardware are you looking at?

Well for which you’ll need as a minimum a Radeon RX 570 or GTX 1060 3GB which I even have to say is very affordable. Both driven an average of round 90 fps in our test and 1% low figures over 60 fps. We also see similar overall performance from the RX 580 and 6GB GTX 1060.

For lower give up models inclusive of the RX 560 and GTX 1050 you will possibly want to reduce the first-rate settings a touch. For those of you rocking a preceding generation GPU you can nevertheless stay up for some quite solid performance when playing Strange Brigade.

At 1080p the usage of the ultra satisfactory preset the R9 390 beat out the GTX 970 to supply 88 fps on common, against eighty one fps. Interestingly the R9 390X wasn’t tons faster than the non-X model and while it edged in advance of the GTX 980 for the common body rate, the frame time result turned into plenty decrease.