Counter-Strike 2 GPU Benchmarks & Comparison: NVIDIA, AMD, & Intel Tested

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Sponsor: Thermaltake SWAFAN EX 120 3-Pack on Amazon https://geni.us/ardZR This benchmark tests Counter-Strike 2, the successor to CSGO (Global Offensive), for GPU performance across a few maps and a lot of video cards. One of our primary areas of interest for this game has been frametime pacing. Although not too bad overall on our systems, the occasional hitches we did encounter were often large or noticeable even as one-offs. We spend a bit of time exploring those, but also talk about the difference of test environments with smoke grenades, incendiary grenades, or just firefights. We ultimately settled on a benchmark scene that involved smoke grenades for about half the benchmark, with a mix of traversal and firefights for the other half. This represents the average player's round pretty well. Testing included cards like the NVIDIA RTX 4090, RTX 4080, AMD RX 7900 XTX, 7800 XT, and plenty of prior generation cards, like the GTX 1650, GTX 1060, and so on. Intel Arc was also tested for the A750 and A770. PATCH UPDATE & QUICK TEST: Valve has posted a lot of patches since this video. A couple days after we published, they posted a patch that's meant to address some of the shader compile or frametime spiking ("hitching") behavior on NVIDIA cards specifically. We ran some new numbers against the update and there's improvement in a few places; notably, in instances where we experienced massive stutters on NVIDIA due to (what we suspect) are shader compiling issues, it looks like th

Published 2023-10-01 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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