 Yeah, setting up with some things and stuff. I gotta make sure that it doesn't really know what's coming, because some of my stuff is gonna be kind of fun surprise type things. I don't know how well I'm gonna be able to conceal this one. It sounds like Stormtrooper armor. Oh, it's not Stormtrooper armor, but that's a very good idea. How inconspicuous do I look? Okay, I'm ready to maneuver. Okay. Rolling. One, two. Man, this is gonna suck. Dragon Age Inquisition had a pretty minor bug here or there, but there's nothing too difficult to get out of, and nothing that was necessarily game breaking either. At least nothing that I came across that was game breaking. What was interesting about the game was that this included mantle and the difficulties that come with that. If you want to see more silly challenges like this, like Linus doing a review in full body paint, stay subscribed to Linus Tech Tips. Save on select Intel CPUs, NUCs, and SSDs with special Black Friday rebates from select retailers. Click now to learn more. And thus began our adventure of benchmarking with mantle. The first hurdle was found after I had finished all of my Nvidia testing using FRAPS. Mantle doesn't exactly play nicely with FRAPS, and because of this, I had to toss all of my data and find a different solution. Shit. You shot him in the face. Just the tip. Just to see if it hurts. Enter F-CAT. When we were trying to record 4K, we found out that our capture card doesn't support RGB input. Unfortunately, at the same time, AMD cards didn't support YCBCR output. The case with Nvidia was we didn't actually test it, so we didn't know if they supported that. But it didn't really matter because they would both have to work regardless. And after all of this, the final proverbial nail in the coffin was that the F-CAT overlay required for recording these frame times doesn't natively work in mantle either, just like the FRAPS overlay doesn't as well. DICE actually hacked support for F-CAT into Battlefield 4, a solution that BioWare, as of this point, has not included in Dragon Age Inquisition. We're done! Which brought us to our final solution. Regrettably, we had to use the built-in benchmarking utility, which unsurprisingly doesn't seem all that precise, and it runs through the same canned sections of the game at a super speed and then spits out a minimum average frame rate in about 40 seconds or less. The results of these tests could bear... Oh my goodness. Could bear a minimum frame rate of about 40 seconds or less. Oh my goodness. It could vary anywhere from 0.5 to 2 FPS throughout the benchmarks, whereas usually with our own benchmarks, anything from above 0.1 to 0.2 is completely unacceptable. How's your hand? I kind of smoked you. Oh, it's bleeding. Sorry. Oh, it's fine, though. Guys? No, it's fine. Keeping those issues in mind, our 1080p results were quite linear. Something to note here is that while the 290X is behind the 780ti in averages, it actually beat it in minimums by 0.1, but still it's important to note because losses in minimum FPS is much more noticeable than anything else. The story with 4K was more or less the same, but please note that I had settings quite hard to demonstrate the ability for Dragon Age Inquisition to push your system. If running this is a little bit difficult for you on your own, definitely just turn down the settings a little bit and your performance will be a lot better. Just like with 1080p testing, the results were quite linear and the minimums for AMD were actually noteworthy, with 290X beating the 780ti by 0.6 in averages, but by whopping 2.2 in minimums. 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