RX 550 vs A10-7890K APU Frame Time Analysis - HITMAN (2016) DX11 & DX12 [PARIS & SAPIENZA]
20We follow the footsteps of Agent 47 in the Paris and Sapienza missions in HITMAN with AMD's strongest integrated graphics solution and the recently released RX 550. IO Interactive's Glacier engine supports DirectX 12 as well, the developers wanted to improve CPU and GPU performance with the explicit API.
Rather interesting results were obtained on both configurations. The A10-7890K was able to produce much tighter frame times with DX12 enabled, especially where there's not many NPCs to render - DX12 shows improved frame rates throughout the benchmarks scenes. The frame times are much smoother with DX12 on the dGPU-equipped system as well, but oddly enough, on NPC-heavy scenes DX12 loses performance compared to DX11. The micro stutter that is observable on the graphs on DX11 are either very minor or not very perceptible with slow camera motions - didn't notice any strange jerkiness when recording.
Fingers crossed for IOInteractive, hopefully we will see many more HITMAN episodes in the future!
0:22 FTA Paris
1:22 FTA Sapienza
2:33 results
Entry level i3+RX550 build:
CASE: QDIY Professional Modder Acrylic Case (PC-D008)
PSU: Cooler Master G650M
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1151
CPU: Intel Core i3-7100 3.9GHz
GPU: Sapphire RX 550 PULSE 2GB GDDR5
RAM: HyperX Savage 16GB (2X8GB) DDR4 2400MHz
STORAGE: Samsung m.2 SATA 500GB SSD 850 EVO
COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
AMD APU build:
CASE: QDIY Professional Modder Acrylic Case (PC-D008)
PSU: Cooler Master G650M
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XN-WIFI Mini ITX FM2+
CPU: AMD A10-7890K 4.1 Ghz/4.3 GHz
GPU: integrated - AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
RAM: G.SKILL Ares 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 2400MHz
STORAGE: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2.5" SATA III 500GB
COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
A dedicated recording PC with a capture card was used to save the game footages and consequently no performance penalty was incurred on the reviewed systems. For convenience, games are installed on an external SSD and connected to the reviewed PC.
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