Sniper elite 4 performance tests show amd advantage

Sniper Elite 4 is now available on the Steam platform, the fourth video game in the saga developed by Rebellion is presented with a renewed graphic section, making use of advanced DirectX 12 techniques and Asynchronous Computing, which would be giving AMD an advantage by about Nvidia's solutions.

AMD Graphics Take Advantage of DirectX 12

The folks at Guru3D have released a few Sniper Elite 4 performance tests with different cards from AMD and Nvidia, tests that see an advantage to AMD options under DirectX 12.

Test results in Sniper Elite 4

Sniper Elite 4 does not seem to be an extremely demanding game and it can be seen how a GTX 970 and above exceed 60 frames per second at 1080p resolution and maximum graphic quality. We also see that with a modest GTX 1050 it can already be played in ultra above 30 frames per second.

When we increase the resolution to 4K, things are different and it takes at least one GTX 980 to be able to maintain 30 frames per second. In this resolution we see that the R9 Fury manage to outperform the GTX 1070, surely benefiting from Asynchronous Computing.

Probably the most interesting thing about the tests is the performance of AMD graphics when DirectX 12 works, gaining 24% more performance compared to DirectX 11. You can also see how it scales performance in crossfire (multi-GPU) solutions by 100%!

Minimum and recommended requirements

• Operating system: Windows 7 64bit / 8.1 64bit / 10 64bit Processor: AMD FX4300 or Intel Core i3 or better RAM memory: 4GB RAM Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2GB) or better

The recommended configuration:

• Operating system: 64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8.1 or 64-bit Windows 10 Processor: Intel CPU Core i7-3770 or equivalent AMD RAM memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics card: GTX 970 / AMD RX 480

The Guru3D tests were done with an Intel Core i7-5960X processor. You may be interested in the article on Radeon RX 500 will have models based on Vega and Polaris.