A 4K thrashing
AMD has apparently given Nvidia a good thrashing at 4K in early benchmarks of Doom.
Early benchmarks using the Doom alpha were performed by GameGPU and can be seen as a spanking for Nvidia. The benchmarks are from an early build of Doom, without any platform-specific optimizations done, so things will only get better. The Doom alpha was run on an Intel Core i7-5960X, GIGABYTE X99 UD7 WIFI with 32 GB DDR4 2666 MHz RAM
The Nvidia driver was a GeForce/ION Driver 361.75 while the AMD one was a Radeon Crimson Edition 16.11.1 The benchmarks were run at 1080p (1920×1080), 1440p (2560×1440) and 4K (3840×2160). In both AMD cleans Nvidia’s clock. AMD hits the 60FPS barrier in both minimum and average frames per second, with nearly all of its high-end and enthusiast GPUs. This includes the R9 290, R9 290X, R9 295X2 (dual-GPU), R9 Fury X, and R9 Nano. Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti fall behind the R9 290 – which is a strange thing to see indeed.
AMD does well in 1440p, with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti could only manage 41FPS and 51FPS average at 1440p, while the R9 290 has a 55FPS average. The benchmark is in Russian but the good people at Game GPU have done a transation of the key points.
