Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition | RX 6800 Ray Tracing | Linux (RADV) vs Windows Arunkumar Bupathy 2023-09-09 | Needless to say, the one on the left is Linux (Ubuntu 22.04, with Mesa 23.2.0-rc3 via the ernstp/mesarc ppa). If you experience a crash running Metro Exodus EE in Linux, it's probably because nVidia's Hair-Doesn't-Work! Turn it off.
Control with RT Transp. Refl. on the Ryzen 9 HX 370 (17W) Arunkumar Bupathy 2024-11-17 | Recorded using a capture card on a secondary PC, so the FPS reading is accurate.
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition on the Ryzen 9 HX 370 (17W) Arunkumar Bupathy 2024-11-17 | Recorded using a capture card on a secondary PC, so the FPS reading is accurate.
Interesting Behavior on Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Plugged vs Unplugged Arunkumar Bupathy 2024-11-02 | I noticed some interesting behavior on my Asus Zenbook S16 with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 when plugged vs unplugged. Pay attention to the CPU usage and GPU clock speed at the start (plugged) vs unplugged at around 00:35. P# are the standard Zen 5 cores and E# are the Zen 5c (efficiency) cores. Depending on the game tested, it gains about 2-5% FPS when unplugged! This is on a fresh (re)install of Windows 11 with the Asus provided Chipset and GPU drivers, on the latest BIOS version. Note that Memory Integrity and Virtual Machine Platform have been turned off for the test. I've verified that windows power plan was the same (Balanced) on both, and the test was done after the processor settled down to its long time power limit, which I set to 17W. But the behavior is still there (albeit less noticeable) no matter what settings, drivers (Asus supplied vs generic AMD), or power plans you use, as long as they are the same plugged vs unplugged.
Cherry Blossoms Arunkumar Bupathy 2024-04-07 | A windy road with cherry blossom canopy? Sign me up, please!
Terminal Velocity Arunkumar Bupathy 2024-03-28 | Looks slow-mo but this is real time view of water drops falling from the summit of Tour Eiffel.
Cyberpunk 2077 Path Tracing on RX 6800 with RT Overdrive Mod (perf. version) 1440p FSR2 balanced Arunkumar Bupathy 2023-09-10 | The path-tracing preview is fine, but what's the point if only the elite can even experience what it looks like? IMO, they should have included options to lower the ray count and the bounces in the graphics menu, which is what the RT Overdrive Optimizations mod does. I don't think that anyone would have complained.Anyway, the game is too ambitious for it's own good. Wish they had delivered on the exploration and side quests more than the shiny reflections. Even the main story line is too scripted, and the character development is patchy at best. Coming from the Witcher 3, this game feels almost lifeless, unless you're looking out of the window of your car.Note: The massive stutters you see are only in this recording, not experienced in game.
Control - Ray Tracing on RX 6800 in Linux with RADV and FSR 2 injection! Arunkumar Bupathy 2023-09-08 | With the native HDR mod for Control, you can inject FSR 2 via the CyberFSR2 mod. I am getting about 75% of Windows performance, on my RX 6800 running on the latest Mesa version obtained via the ernstp ppa. RADV is truly rad! The CyberFSR2 page has link to the HDR mod and some instructions. To enroll the registry key that enables FSR, I had to run this in the terminal: env WINEPREFIX=$STEAM_LIBRARY/compatdata/870780/pfx $STEAM_LIBRARY/common/Proton\ -\ Experimental/files/bin/wine regedit$STEAM_LIBRARY is the path to your steamapps folder. 870780 is the steam id for Control and may be different in your case.Also, I think the native HDR mod caused my game to crash to the desktop, coz there is no Linux HDR support yet. I believe adding this to the renderer.ini (in the game binary folder) should fix it: "m_eAllowHDR": 0
Control - Max Ray Tracing | RX 6800 | HDR Mod + CyberFSR2 Arunkumar Bupathy 2023-09-07 | Control with max RT on an AMD GPU? Yes! You need the Control native HDR mod and the CyberFSR2 mod. Do read the compatibility list in the CyberFSR2 page, which has some instructions! Note: Stutters only appear in this recording, not while playing.
Cyberpunk 2077 - RT Overdrive (Path Tracing) | RX 6800 | 1440p FSR2 Ultra Perf Arunkumar Bupathy 2023-04-13 | Quite the cinematic experience. I'm not joking. I wouldn't recommend playing with these settings, but the visuals are transformative and are to be experienced for oneself. Screencaps or youtube videos simply don't do justice to the realism brought about by full path tracing.
Dead Space Remake | RX 6800 | 1440p Native w. RTAO Arunkumar Bupathy 2023-03-04 | The stutter struggle is real!
Spider-Man Remastered - Ray Tracing | RX 6800 | 1440p FSR2 Arunkumar Bupathy 2023-01-08 | Graphical settings as recommended by Alex Battaglia of Digital Foundry, with dynamic resolution scaling (FSR 2) set to target 60fps. This game is beautiful and heavily CPU bottlenecked (look at GPU utilization)!
Cyberpunk 2077 - Ray Tracing | RX 6800 | 1440p FSR2 w. RT Reflections Arunkumar Bupathy 2022-12-31 | This is one of the few games where ray traced reflections make sense given its cyberpunk theme. I believe that one can live with the frame rate dips into the 50s and the shimmer from FSR 2.
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition | RX 6800 | High RT 1440p Native Arunkumar Bupathy 2022-12-30 | This was the worst case scenario I found in Metro Exodus, where the frame time graph is jumping around a lot. With raytracing set to high, the game is above 60fps for the most part. I believe that this is one of the few games that gets ray traced global illumination right, and it does transform the experience for the better.
Control - Ray Tracing | RX 6800 | 1440p Native w. Transparent Reflections Arunkumar Bupathy 2022-12-30 | The best way to experience ray tracing in Control on AMD GPUs is to only turn on the transparency reflections. The video above shows the worst case performance of the RX 6800 at 1440p at the infamous Corridor of Doom!
Resident Evil 2 - Candy from a Baby Arunkumar Bupathy 2019-10-07 | Sorry for the blurry game menus. The RE Immersion Reshade preset blurs the menus. But I have replaced the Lumasharpen filter with the MartyMcFly version of the Radeon Contrast Adaptive Sharpening filter (with strength = 0). Helps alleviate the blurry mess that this game is with FXAA+TAA.
The Witcher 3 - Dont you think that the Bog looks stunning? Arunkumar Bupathy 2019-04-17 | The Witcher 3 is a great yard-stick for measuring GPU performance across AMD/nVidia. It's decently optimized, and gives a good idea of what the average performance of your GPU is gonna be across multiple games. If you haven't played it yet, do yourself a favour and buy it now!
Rise of the Tomb Raider - Gotta love Lara... Arunkumar Bupathy 2019-04-15 | Runs decently enough. Note that the GPU has been overclocked and undervolted. Gotta love Lara though...
Quantum Break - The Time Egg is Broken! Arunkumar Bupathy 2019-04-15 | To my own surprise, I loved this game. I found the story, length and gameplay mechanics to be just right for me. But something is wrong with the movement thought - it's a stuttery mess! Note that the GPU has been overclocked and undervolted.
Batman Arkham Knight - Damn Unwieldy Batmobile Arunkumar Bupathy 2019-04-15 | Batman Arkham Knight performs surprisingly well on the AMD based Acer Nitro 5! Sorry for the clumsy game play. Note that the GPU has been overclocked and undervolted.
AC Origins - This game is Shit! - Read description to find why. Arunkumar Bupathy 2018-12-29 | This laptop is capable of running the Assassin's Creed Origins at 1080p 30 fps. Well... As long as I don't move my mouse that is. It seems any input from the mouse causes spikes in the CPU time, which is otherwise comfortably less than 33ms. Personally, I can play with the framerate hovering around 26 - 27 fps, but the CPU spikes cause extremely bad frame pacing. No amount of tweaking the settings or putting an fps cap relieves this. I saved myself some frustration and uninstalled this game...
Rise of the Tomb Raider on Radeon R9 M265X (HD 8850M) Arunkumar Bupathy 2018-07-05 | Performance of the Rise of the Tomb Raider on a stock R9 M265x (8850m) / i7 4500u. DX11 mode, recorded with Fraps. Lowest framerate ~20fps Settings: 720p, lowest everything, except medium shadows. AO and Bloom turned off, as turning on only either of the two is visually unappealing.
ROTTR - Syrian Border - Performance on R9 M265x (8850m) Arunkumar Bupathy 2018-07-05 | Performance of the Rise of the Tomb Raider on a stock R9 M265x (8850m) / i7 4500u. DX11 mode, recorded with Fraps. Lowest framerate ~20fpsSettings: 720p, lowest everything, except medium shadows. AO and Bloom turned off, as turning on only either of the two is visually unappealing.
ROTTR - London Manor - Performance on R9 M265x (8850m) Arunkumar Bupathy 2018-07-05 | Performance of the Rise of the Tomb Raider on a stock R9 M265x (8850m) / i7 4500u. This time in DX11 mode, recorded with Fraps. Sorry for the loading screen and abrupt end, coz I ran out of space for recording on my measly 4GB ramdisk.Lowest framerate was ~20fps when camera focuses on Lara's hair.Settings: 720p, lowest everything, except medium shadows.Particularly, AO and Bloom turned off, as turning only either of the two on is visually unappealing.
Rise of the Tomb Raider - Performance Benchmark - Radeon R9 M265x (8850m) Arunkumar Bupathy 2018-07-03 | A short video showing the gameplay performance of Rise of the Tomb Raider on a stock clocked Radeon R9 M265x / i7 4500u. Game plays better without recording, of course.Display Res: 720p, Shadow at medium, ambient occlusion: off, bloom: off, purehair: on.If you plan to turn off the AO, I would suggest to turn off bloom as well. Looks better in my opinion.
The Witcher 3 - Yennefer and Geralt run into the Wild Hunt - Radeon R9 M265x (8850m) Arunkumar Bupathy 2016-09-17 | This hopefully shows how The Witcher 3 runs on an overclocked AMD Radeon 8850m / R9 M265X and a Core i7 4500u. Overclocked using Sapphire Trixx.Avg FPS: ~27Min FPS: 18GPU Core / Mem: 768 MHz / 1200 MHzPost-Processing: AA + Bloom + Low sharpening + Vignetting (All others off)Graphics: VSync Off + 30fps cap + 720p fullscreen + Textures High + Detail Level High (All others low)
The Witcher 3 - Bye Bye Imlerith - Radeon R9 M265x (8850m) Arunkumar Bupathy 2016-09-17 | Death March? Check. Enemy upscaling? Check. Imlerith? No problem!On an overclocked AMD Radeon 8850m / R9 M265X and a Core i7 4500u.Avg FPS: ~27GPU Core / Mem: 768 MHz / 1200 MHzPost-Processing: AA + Bloom + Low sharpening + Vignetting (All others off)Graphics: VSync Off + 30fps cap + 720p fullscreen + Textures High + Detail Level High (All others low)
The Witcher 3 - Is Ciri Dead? - Radeon R9 M265x (8850m) Arunkumar Bupathy 2016-09-17 | Is Geralt too late? Is Ciri dead? Play The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt to find out!On an overclocked AMD Radeon 8850m / R9 M265X and a Core i7 4500u.Avg FPS: ~27GPU Core / Mem: 768 MHz / 1200 MHzPost-Processing: AA + Bloom + Low sharpening + Vignetting (All others off)Graphics: VSync Off + 30fps cap + 720p fullscreen + Shadows Low + Textures High + Detail Level High (All others low)
The Witcher 3 - Ploughing Wraiths! - Radeon R9 M265x (8850m) Arunkumar Bupathy 2016-09-17 | Geralt hates these wraiths more than he does Eredin!On an overclocked AMD Radeon 8850m / R9 M265X and a Core i7 4500u.Avg FPS: ~27GPU Core / Mem: 768 MHz / 1200 MHzPost-Processing: AA + Bloom + Low sharpening + Vignetting (All others off)Graphics: VSync Off + 30fps cap + 720p fullscreen + Shadows Medium + Textures High + Detail Level High (All others low)
The Witcher 3 - Geralt finds about Hendrik - Radeon R9 M265x (8850m) Arunkumar Bupathy 2016-09-17 | Some bits of the The Witcher 3 Gameplay on an overclocked AMD Radeon 8850m / R9 M265X and a Core i7 4500u. Overclocked using Sapphire Trixx.Avg FPS: ~27Min FPS: 18GPU Core / Mem: 768 MHz / 1200 MHzPost-Processing: AA + Bloom + Low sharpening + Vignetting (All others off)Graphics: VSync Off + 30fps cap + 720p fullscreen + Shadows Medium + Textures High + Detail Level High (All others low)
Performance by The Danceworx @ Rendezvous 14, IIT Delhi Arunkumar Bupathy 2014-10-19 | Watch this superb performance in HD. By the talented dancers of The Danceworx for Rendezvous '14, IIT Delhi!
