Far Cry 6 GPU performance not bad at all but is severely bottlenecked by CPU

Grim5 · 5 Oct 2021 at 10:57

Has anyone gotten their AMD cd key for Far Cry 6? The AMD rewards website still says its not available despite the game out in less than 48 hours

Jacky60 · 5 Oct 2021 at 12:20

shankly1985 said:
Each to their own, I think it looks good enough.

It looks OK, hardly next gen and not something I'd bother with as I've owned 3 FarCries and the gameplay in all of them has been meh after about 10 minutes.
As you say, each to their own!

Nexus18 · 5 Oct 2021 at 12:34

Yup on the whole it looks good when not comparing to anything else.

The problem is when you do compare it to other games and also look at how FC 5 and new dawn still look... it doesn't look much, if any better on the whole compared to those 2 games. It has ray tracing but from the looks of it, it is only reflections and shadows so those are the only areas where things will look a decent bit better/somewhat nextgen like.

varkanoid · 5 Oct 2021 at 12:38

Grim5 said:
Has anyone gotten their AMD cd key for Far Cry 6? The AMD rewards website still says its not available despite the game out in less than 48 hours

No, dont expect to get it till 7th. This is AMD we are talking about. Plus even if we did wouldnt play it straight away would wait for the patches.

JediFragger · 5 Oct 2021 at 13:18

varkanoid said:
No, dont expect to get it till 7th. This is AMD we are talking about. Plus even if we did wouldnt play it straight away would wait for the patches.

Yup they (AMDRewards) were feckless with this type of thing at first, then everyone complained about not getting codes in time to pre-load so they got better. Now it seems they've gone back to being crap again, shocker.

ltron · 5 Oct 2021 at 13:25

LtMatt said:
It (FSR) might reduce VRAM usage a little, but the textures will be swapped out for lower quality textures if the graphics card is lacking sufficient video memory. That or min FPS will take a hit a hit too.

Already user reports of this in the field.

. I didn't expect 10GB of VRAM to become a problem so quickly.

JediFragger · 5 Oct 2021 at 13:33

ltron said:
. I didn't expect 10GB of VRAM to become a problem so quickly.

Download more, it's simples.

LtMatt · 5 Oct 2021 at 13:43

ltron said:
. I didn't expect 10GB of VRAM to become a problem so quickly.

JediFragger said:
Download more, it's simples.

Or upgrade to a 3060TI?

Sorry, low blow.

Game · 5 Oct 2021 at 13:48

NinjaCool said:
I guess the Dunia engine is seriously starting to show its age!
It is interesting to see from the link above that a reviewer is reporting noticeable CPU performance issues, like he can barely maintain 60 FPS at 1440p on medium settings using an older I7-3930K CPU (6C/12T) with the RTX 3070.

very unbalenced system

Psycho Sonny said:
It may well be. Until it isn't.

Or your hardware has no issues but that doesn't mean others won't.

I'll wait for the service packs to be released personally before I jump.

will give it a good year

there are already memory cache problems

Psycho Sonny · 5 Oct 2021 at 15:03

LtMatt said:
Or upgrade to a 3060TI?

Sorry, low blow.

3060ti only has 8gb. It's the 3060 which has more than 10gb of vram

LtMatt · 5 Oct 2021 at 15:08

Psycho Sonny said:
3060ti only has 8gb. It's the 3060 which has more than 10gb of vram

My bad, forgot it was the 3060 with 12GB.

Rapster · 5 Oct 2021 at 15:18

JediFragger said:
Download more, it's simples.

Would you mind sharing a link? The stuff I usually download has malware.

ltron · 5 Oct 2021 at 15:19

LtMatt said:
Or upgrade to a 3060TI?

Sorry, low blow.

3060 you mean :cry:

. The 3060 TI only has 8GB. I got the 3080 FE at MSRP so I knew I was compromising but for a decent price. If I had paid scalper prices I'd be much more upset, instead I'm just annoyed.

Rapster · 5 Oct 2021 at 15:19

Grim5 said:
Has anyone gotten their AMD cd key for Far Cry 6? The AMD rewards website still says its not available despite the game out in less than 48 hours

No and I think there are a few of us waiting for codes from AMD Rewards.

LtMatt · 5 Oct 2021 at 15:22

ltron said:
3060 you mean . The 3060 TI only has 8GB. I got the 3080 FE at MSRP so I knew I was compromising but for a decent price. If I had paid scalper prices I'd be much more upset, instead I'm just annoyed.

Yep, I've already been corrected. My knowledge of the green GPUs is not the best tbf.

ltron · 5 Oct 2021 at 15:24

LtMatt said:
Yep, I've already been corrected. My knowledge of the green GPUs is not the best tbf.

Well it is an odd decision to give an underpowered card so much more VRAM than more powerful models, so I don't blame you

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Rapster · 5 Oct 2021 at 15:25

ltron said:
Well it is an odd decision to give an underpowered card so much more VRAM than more powerful models, so I don't blame you .

It was a daft decision, matched only by the daftness of the whole GPU situation.

JediFragger · 5 Oct 2021 at 16:58

LtMatt said:
My knowledge of the green GPUs is not the best tbf.

Red is a bit shaky too

LtMatt · 5 Oct 2021 at 17:02

JediFragger said:
Red is a bit shaky too

Blasphemy!

Poneros · 5 Oct 2021 at 17:14

Games that are meant to be played in HDR will ofc look flat in SDR. That's not how it's meant to be played. In fact even further back you had some pipeline changes to how games are made which meant that games looked off even when they were SDR-only like Far Cry Primal (couldn't add HDR in time), which would've benefitted tremendously from HDR. You just can't have lighting like this and have it look proper unless you have a decent HDR display. Heck, I tried F.I.S.T yesterday and that game just looked completely off as well without HDR (doesn't have it) but you can see it's almost meant to for how it's lit. Had to engage "fake HDR" on my TV in order to simulate the effect a bit and make it more tolerable. Truth is you just can't launch non-HDR games in 2021 and have them look right unless we're talking simplistic & cartoony graphics.