Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Ghost Recon Breakpoint — Testing on an i7-4790K + RTX 2080 Ti — 1440p Benchmark — Will It Play?”.
Hello and welcome to Tech deals. This is Ghost Recon break point at 1440p, Ultra detail on a nine-year-old CPU and a nearly five-year-old graphics card. This plays remarkably well considering how poorly it played when it launched Ghost Recon breakpoint was, shall we say, challenged at launch. It received mixed reviews. It was not considered to be a true ghost recon game. It diverged substantially from the previous Ghost Recon games and lo and behold they made nfts for it. Yes, really seriously.
They made NF freaking tease for this. They failed. Thank goodness – and they said, okay, we’re not doing that anymore, but it kind of killed a lot of interest in the game.
Actually, some of the games, design and overall microtransactions probably did that too wildlands which came before was in many ways a better game. Although technically this is superior, the game mechanics in the world are maybe a little more interesting. Although it is a massive world with 5 000 million places to go, but it’s fun to play and I’ve played it a bunch. I’Ve nearly cleared the game. I’Ve almost done a 100 clearing of the map, but not quite I have way too many hundreds of hours into it, which is one of the reasons why you’re watching it today, it’s a good excuse to play some Ghost Recon breakpoint now the i-74790k here is a Nine-Year-Old CPU from 2014 and we’re using almost all of it, I’m actually kind of surprised how well this runs. Considering that most games do not use hyper threading very well, this could be the Vulcan engine.
This could just be enough patches and Updates. This could be well. We don’t have a choice.
I guess we’re using hyper threading because we’re using 80 plus percent of the CPU anything over 50 percent is into hyper threading and traditionally games. Don’T do that very well. Hyper threading is good for multitasking. It’S good for frame pacing, it’s good for background tasks, it’s good for a variety of things, but typically not for gaming, but in this case it runs pretty well our graphics cards actually being pretty heavily utilized here and most of the games I tested. It was not at 1440p, the RTX 2080 TI is typically not the limitation. The i7 4790k is, but this is breakpoint.
It is ultra detail. It is a 2018 game. It came out about the same time as the RTX 2080 TI, and it is a good example that, if you want to play games at Ultra detail at 1440p, the top end graphics card is not crazy. I mentioned this in a recent q, a in fact this was Aztec number 27, which just published a few days uh before I actually recorded this voiceover and the question was: should I buy a RTX 4070 or should I buy an RX 6800 XT? The goal is new AAA games at 1440p Ultra and I said well, I’m going to give you two answers. The first answer is not the one you asked, which is the RTX 490, is your new best friend, if you’re in 2023, buying a new video card today that you want to last for two plus years at 1440p Ultra. Well, you just have to buy the best of the best, because the mid-level cards are going to age poorly.
If you need a good example of that you’re watching it here, if we swapped out the RTX 2080 TI with an RTX 2070, which is the 4070 equivalent of 2018., how well do you all think it’d be running right here? Well, it certainly wouldn’t be doing 80 frames per second, that much is for sure. In fact, it wouldn’t even be doing 60. you’d, probably be getting between 40 to 50 frames per second now. Some of you may think that 40 to 50 frames per second is just fine, and I I can hear the comments already, but please go to the keyboard and say it because it boosts engagement. Tech Ultra is for screenshots highest for gaming, just lower the detail to high detail and it’ll run just fine on an RTX 2070.. You are absolutely correct, but that is not what I was asked.
I was specifically asked by a viewer which card would I buy for 1440p Ultra detail gaming for AAA games and my answer is: I wouldn’t buy the 4070 or the 6800 XT I’d buy a 40 90. as expensive as it is. I know it’s 1600. It’S crazy! It’S ridiculous whatever, but look how well the 2080 TI hangs on today.
Now the 2070 does okay as well, but the 2080 TI does better. It has 11 gigs of vram versus the 8 on the 2070 and even for the next two years. A 2080 TI is definitely going to be a better choice for 1440p gaming than a 2070 would and again. We are in fact playing a four year old game, we’re not playing a brand new one. So, okay, I’ve beaten that horse to submission.
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It’S not DirectX 12, and some regards it’s probably better, but what’s interesting about it is this game. Was it really didn’t run all that great when it first came out and the patches updates and the inclusion of this API are what changed things? I remember playing this game on my i7 8700k at launch. I stream this game on Twitch and it ran horribly even with my GTX 1080 TI, which, okay to be sure, is not an RTX 2080, but even if I turn the detail down a bit, even if I used the Intel integrated graphics for their quick sync function With twitch, so I’m not using any of the Nvidia card for live streaming now I was using the CPU for live streaming, but, let’s be honest, OBS doesn’t use that much. It’S the um.
It’S the power! That’S taken out of your graphics card, which usually takes about five or ten percent of the performance away if you’re using the Nvidia encoder the nvenc encoder, while you’re live streaming, but I turned on the integrated graphics and you can have OBS use Quick sync to do. The videoing code, while the video card actually plays the game and it was choppy, it was never great. I could get it smooth. If I wasn’t streaming wasn’t encoding, nothing was open. I shut everything else down and I just played the game. It was okay. On an i7 8700k at launch, but it wasn’t great – and I remember that’s one of the reasons why I moved from an ISO 7, 8 700k to an I9 9900k. The move from six to eight cores cleaned this game right up, and here we are in 2023, playing it on a 4 core, a thread chip and it’s two and just fine.
It isn’t perfect. There were a couple of places where it would be. How shall I say a little squirtly, but overall, it was remarkably good, considered. Oh watch those rotor blades watch the rotor blades that looks like an expensive helicopter. Okay, so overall it was remarkable. It’S this is remarkably good, considering how bad it was at launch. If money is a concern, let me encourage you to buy games a year after they launch two years after the launch: they’re discounted, they’re, less expensive, they’re, hopefully, hopefully knock on wood.
They’Re patched, the bugs are fixes they’re, tweaked, they’re, optimized drivers are updated and the game is fully supported and a lot of times you can buy the Game of the Year Edition for less than the original launch cost of the game, with all the DLC and the Other Malarkey that should have been in the game to begin with now, you’ll notice, here in this cut scene, the frame rate locks to 60 and it will over time, drag down the average, and this is of course, of course, this game has a built-in Benchmark. I could just show you the built-in Benchmark, but you’ll notice it dropped from 81 to 80.. The middle white number at the top is the rolling average.
The right white number is the rolling one percent low. Of course it locks to 60 instantly once we get into a cutscene like this, and then the left number is the real time frame rate and a lot of times. Some games and maps are cut scenes it’ll, throw the frame rate off you’ll notice. It kicked right back up to 80 frames per second as soon as we got out of the cutscene short scenes like that. In a long game play, I played for like 40 45 minutes or so aren’t going to affect the outcome of the Benchmark. All that much.
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