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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Game selection widens considerably in such meta reviews actually, since testers test different sets of games. I had checked for the same two GPUs in Tom's hierarchy before posting, since I too was suspicious of the 4070 Ti trumping 6950 XT at 1440p. But Tom's confirms the trend, with 4070 Ti clocking 115.1 fps, and 6950 XT at 113.7.

They test with Borderlands 3 (DX12), Far Cry 6 (DX12), Flight Simulator (DX11 AMD/DX12 Intel/Nvidia), Forza Horizon 5 (DX12), Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12), Red Dead Redemption 2 (Vulkan), Total War Warhammer 3 (DX11), and Watch Dogs Legion (DX12).

Regarding whether BG3 and Jedi Survivor were tested elsewhere, they were likely not, at least BG3 was not. The 6950 data was either pulled from 4070 Ti or 4070 meta review shortly after their release, and these games weren't available then. This is one of the caveats I point out in the original post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a great question- Tom's hierarchy is a nice go-to resource, with handy quick reference charts and tables, but they aren't the only ones doing rigorous testing. There are other well-regarded testers doing exhaustive and thorough testing- Techpowerup, Hardware Unboxed aka Techspot, ComputerBase to name a few I like.

What a meta review does is open up the test configurations and environments, broaden the number of tested games, reduce biases, and minimize errors because of the significantly larger data set. In my view, the meta review data is more reliable because of all these reasons.

All that said, if comparing this table with Tom's or TPU's or HUB's tables, we will see similar ballparks and patterns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, thanks for pointing out that prominent omission.

Unfortunately, Voodoo's meta review for 4060 only has 1080p numbers, no 1440p numbers there. But looking at his numbers here, the closest rival is 7600 at 2.2% slower than 4060 at 1080p. With an assumption that 1080p performance scales identically on both GPUs to 1440p, the 4060 calculation would be 55.43*100/97.8

= 56.68% in the above 1440p table, slotting in just above RX 7600. That's pretty much your estimate.

 

Sharing my attempt at a handy list of 1440p Raster performance numbers, expanded from past meta review of GPUs posted by u/Voodoo2-SLi

This is a very limited take though, just 1440p Raster numbers as percentages. The basic data is from Voodoo's 7700 XT and 7800 XT meta review post. Other GPUs are filled in with back-calculated numbers inferred from Voodoo's previous meta review posts, in reverse chronological order as: 4060 Ti and 7600 meta review post, 4070 meta review post, and 4070 Ti meta review post. As example, 3060-12G numbers were calculated as:

70.7 (4060 Ti-8G percentage from 7800 XT meta review) x 69.2 (3060 Ti-12G percentage from 4060 Ti meta review) /100 = 48.92.

Since the set of games tested by various reviewers change across months- typically with increased GPU requirements- the filled in GPU data may not be highly accurate, but should still be fairly representative of the performance.

If you find any inaccuracies, please point them out, and I will make corrections in the table as needed.

GPU 1440p perf
6600 43.06%
3060-12G 48.92%
6650 XT 52.25%
A770 LE 55.15%
7600 55.43%
3060 Ti 64.69%
6700 XT 67.40%
4060 Ti-8G 70.70%
4060 Ti-16G 71.20%
3070 73.74%
3070 Ti 79.90%
6800 82.70%
7700 XT 85.60%
4070 95.00%
6800 XT 95.70%
3080-10G 95.86%
7800 XT 100.00%
6900 XT 103.90%
3090 106.30%
6950 XT 109.35%
4070 Ti 115.05%
3090 Ti 115.05%
7900 XT 128.00%
4080 138.30%
7900 XTX 140.60%
4090 165.20%