Benchmarks: Culture VI, Deus Ex: MD, DiRT four

Civilisation 4 is another heavily requested title that I had ditched for my day one Vega coverage and yous tin see why from the results to a higher place: it'due south a bad game to test GPU functioning. It's a keen game to test CPU operation but as y'all can see here fifty-fifty with a heavily overclocked Core i7-7700K we are mostly finding the limits of the CPU. Over again though, with 31 other games in this GPU comparison, calculation Civilzation VI shouldn't skew the results.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is another DirectX 12 title but this one is far more GPU-leap and as luck would have it Vega does well here. This is of course an AMD sponsored title but even and then it does evidence how well Vega can perform when a game has been optimized for it.

The Vega 56 came knocking on the GTX 1080'due south door hither while the air-cooled Vega 64 model pulled ahead of the MSI GTX 1080 Gaming Ten 8G -- the liquid-cooled version advanced well ahead.

Dirt iv left me confused after my initial Vega 56 review merely I take since been able to confirm these results. Vega does well using 2xMSAA and even 4xMSAA but tanks with 8xMSAA, though when I say tanks, I hateful information technology drops down to the same level of the competing Nvidia cards. Using CMAA the Vega cards absolutely trash the GeForce 10 series in what is a completely baffling result. I've asked AMD about the various performance anomalies in this championship with Vega simply I've all the same to hear anything back.