The RX 480 features 2304 Stream Processors cranking up to 1266MHz, or 1288MHz in our case with the XFX OC model. The RX 480 is AMD Radeon’s latest generation Polaris based 14nm graphics card. The two cards going head to head today are the XFX RX 480 8GB OC (flashed from 4GB) vs the NVIVIA GTX 1060 Founders Edition in our battery of DX12/Vulkan titles to see where things stand today with these next generation APIs. Thanks to these fellows I am now able to bring you all DX12 and Vulkan results going forward. I want to take a moment and thank AdoredTV, Son of a Tech, and Donny from Custom PC Review.
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This has been no easy task for me but luckily I had a few hands from other reviewers learning how to best implement this.
Not having FCAT at my disposal I’ve resorted to learning the ins and outs of PresentMon. So in walks DX12 and Vulkan….and this changes everything. Yes, there are more advanced methods such as FCAT, but for me that’s a bit out of reach due to the expense of the hardware required for capturing and analyzing the render outputs. This allows for showing a more granular and accurate representation of how a game performs with a particular graphics card. Working with DX9, 10, and 11 in the past has been a fairly painless ordeal requiring nothing more than a licensed copy of FRAPs and the FRAPs analyzing tool to provide us with frametimes as well as Average, 99th and 99.9th percentile lows. Benchmarking DX12 and Vulkan is a bit of a different beast.