AMD Fury X 2020 - Kana's FineWine Edition
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 - Written by Kana Maru
 
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
 
    
Crystal Dynamics is known make great games and Tomb Raider is one of my favorite franchises to date. Most TR games are demanding and requires a decent GPU to run. I have used both the Internal Benchmarks as well as running my own Real Time Benchmarks ™as usual.
I have used the Highest Preset in the game without Nvidia's HBAO+. That technology has caused issues in the previous Tomb Raider game and actually made the image quality worse therefore I choose to avoid it. I'm not sure if it makes the image quality better or worse in this game, but I honestly don't care. I'd rather not take the performance hit using Nvidia Gameworks. For this benchmark I played the first level in the game where you actually take control of Lara.
Real Time Benchmarks ™
    
        
            
Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 1920x1080p
            
        Highest Preset - TAA - BTAO - DX12
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                     DX12  | 
            
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                     FPS MAX  | 
                
                     91.9  | 
            
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                     FPS MAX Caliber ™  | 
                
                     64.5  | 
            
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                     FPS Average  | 
                
                     55  | 
            
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                     FPS MIN Caliber ™  | 
                
                     48.8  | 
            
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                     FPS MIN  | 
                
                     44.7  | 
            
    
        
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        Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 2560x1440p
            
        
    
    Highest Preset - TAA - BTAO - DX12
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                     DX11  | 
            
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                     FPS MAX  | 
                
                     64.3  | 
            
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                     FPS MAX Caliber ™  | 
                
                     48.4  | 
            
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                     FPS Average  | 
                
                     40.6  | 
            
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                     FPS MIN Caliber ™  | 
                
                     34.9  | 
            
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                     FPS MIN  | 
                
                     31.1  | 
            
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        Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 3840x2160p
            
        
    
    Highest Preset - TAA - BTAO - DX12
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                     DX12  | 
            
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                     FPS MAX  | 
                
                     52.8  | 
            
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                     FPS MAX Caliber ™  | 
                
                     29  | 
            
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                     FPS Average  | 
                
                     23.8  | 
            
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                     FPS MIN Caliber ™  | 
                
                     19.8  | 
            
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                     FPS MIN  | 
                
                     15.7  | 
            
        
            Shadow of the Tomb Raider - All Real Time Benchmarks
                
                
                
            
        
    
    
            Internal Benchmark Tool
                
                
            
        
        The game performs very well at 1080p and 1440p with the highest preset. 4K really pushses the card to its limits which is expected from a Tomb Raider game. Obviously I can lower the preset and get more FPS, but I wanted to show what the Fury X is still cable of across the board. Plus I benchmarked tons of games and can't focus solely on Tomb Raider :)
Hitman 2
 
        
    
I ran all of the benchmarks using DX11 since DX12 was giving me a few issues. All of the settings were set to their highest possible levels except Dynamic Sharpening whch was disabled.
Real Time Benchmarks ™
        
            Hitman 2 - 2560x1440p
            
        Max Settings - The Finish Line
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                         DX11  | 
                
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                         FPS MAX  | 
                    
                         105.3  | 
                
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                         FPS MAX Caliber ™  | 
                    
                         92.1  | 
                
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                         FPS Average  | 
                    
                         66.2  | 
                
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                         FPS MIN Caliber ™  | 
                    
                         49.7  | 
                
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                         FPS MIN  | 
                    
                         37.1  | 
                
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                Hitman 2 - 3840x2160p
            
            
                
                    
                        
                    
                
            
        Max Settings - The Finish Line
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                         DX11  | 
                
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                         FPS MAX  | 
                    
                         53.8  | 
                
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                         FPS MAX Caliber ™  | 
                    
                         46.8  | 
                
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                         FPS Average  | 
                    
                         36  | 
                
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                         FPS MIN Caliber ™  | 
                    
                         26.2  | 
                
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                         FPS MIN  | 
                    
                         16.6  | 
                
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            Hitman 2 - 3840x2160p
            
                
            
        Max Settings - Nightcall
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                         DX11  | 
                
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                         FPS MAX  | 
                    
                         61.1  | 
                
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                         FPS MAX Caliber ™  | 
                    
                         50.5  | 
                
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                         FPS Average  | 
                    
                         36  | 
                
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                         FPS MIN Caliber ™  | 
                    
                         23.6  | 
                
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                         FPS MIN  | 
                    
                         15.3  | 
                
            
                Hitman 2 - All Real Time Benchmarks
                    
                    
                    
                
            
        
    
            
                
                    
Internal Benchmark Tool
            
        
        
The in-game benchmark in Hitman games always extremely have high max FPS and insanely low FPS. Maxing out the game at 4K is playable during actual gameplay, but during loading areas you might encounter some micro-stutter for split second. Lowering a few settings makes the game run much smoother at 4K. 1440p with 100% max settings is the sweet spot as usual. In games such as Hitman I prefer to lower a few settings and play in 4K. With max graphic settings @ 4K the game runs really well in my opinion and I was actually surprised at the 4K performance with all of the NPCs on screen.