Rise of the Tomb Raider

Rise of the Tomb Raider (DirectX 12)


Featuring epic, high-octane action moments set in the most beautiful hostile environments on earth, Rise of the Tomb Raider delivers a cinematic survival action adventure where you will join Lara Croft on her first tomb raiding expedition as she seeks to discover the secret of immortality.

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Settings for Rise of the Tomb Raider

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Settings for Rise of the Tomb Raider

For this round of Rise of the Tomb Raider testing we have moved to the DX12 version, hoping to better represent future gaming experiences. In my testing, the Fury X had frequent, and repeatable, spikes in frame times for a single frame here and there; you can see it as the blue line spike in the Frame Times graph. The GTX 1080 is smooth though, and pulls in an average frame rate over 80 FPS, while the GTX 980 Ti comes in next at 61 FPS or so!

At 4K, the frame time spikes on the Fury X go away but are replaced by spikes with the GTX 980 and GTX 980 SLI configurations! The GTX 1080 and GTX 980 Ti are still smooth though, with the GTX 1080 getting another performance lead.

GeForce GTX 1080 8GB, Average FPS Comparisons, Rise of the Tomb Raider
  GTX 980 Ti GTX 980 R9 Fury X GTX 980 SLI
2560×1440 +31% +67% +67% +74%
3840×2160 +27% +68% +45% +75%

This table presents the above data in a more basic way, focusing only on the average FPS, so keep that in mind. Green across the board again for the GTX 1080 – I bet NVIDIA could get used to this! The GP104-based card is about 30% faster than the GTX 980 Ti but is actually 45-67% faster than the Fury X in this DX12 title. 

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