{"id":85931,"date":"2016-02-04T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85931"},"modified":"2016-02-04T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:30:40","slug":"the-divisions-beta-favours-amd-the-r9-390-heavily-outperforms-the-gtx-970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/85931-the-divisions-beta-favours-amd-the-r9-390-heavily-outperforms-the-gtx-970","title":{"rendered":"The Division’s beta favours AMD: the R9 390 heavily outperforms the GTX 970"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Division\u2019s <\/em>beta is far from perfect, but that\u2019s kind of the point of a beta \u2013 to stress test the game, find its kinks and assist Ubisoft in sussing out and generally diagnosing any potential problems.<\/p>\n

Granted, the exploitable netcode<\/a> is really rather concerning, but Ubisoft would be daft to fix that before release.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, many use a game\u2019s beta as a prediction of the game to come, which in The Division\u2019s <\/em>case is both good and bad. And in terms of performance, it\u2019s just a wee bit concerning.<\/p>\n

One of the things many were concerned with prior to the release of the beta was how it would perform.<\/p>\n

Ubisoft\u2019s track record with recent PC ports hasn\u2019t exactly been stellar. So, we were happy to hear Ubisoft Massive, developers of The Division<\/em>, had promised that the PC version of the game was a fully-fledged, well optimised game.<\/p>\n

For the most part, that largely seems to be the case, but NVIDIA\u2019s cards do seem to be struggling a tad.<\/p>\n

In a recent analysis of the beta, Digital Foundry<\/a> demonstrated that both the R9\u00a0390 and GTX 970 struggled to manage 60 fps at Ultra settings on 1080p, which isn\u2019t that great to be honest.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the R9\u00a0390 performs noticeably better than the GTX 970, sometimes staying as many as 15 frames-per-second ahead of the competition \u2013 even after NVIDIA released drivers targeting The Division<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t prevent either from dipping into the low 40s fairly frequently, and in some cases as low as 35. This is a beta, however, so there\u2019s hope for improvements via game and driver optimisations.<\/p>\n

One thing to note, as demonstrated by Digital Foundry, is that overclocking your GTX 970 grants a significant performance improvement.<\/p>\n