AMD RX 6500 XT Review ft. Gigabyte Eagle

Death Stranding is a 2019 action game developed by Kojima Productions. It is the first game from director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their split from Konami in 2015. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 in November 2019 and by 505 Games for Windows in July 2020. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Decima. We test using the Very High preset, DX12 API.

Death Stranding is next and the average frame rate here is actually not dreadful. It’s no better than the RX 580 however, which is a big disappointment. We can see significantly reduced 1% performance too, though this was also the case for the 4GB RX 5500 XT which makes me think it’s likely a memory or PCIe bandwidth issue for both of those cards. Cutting PCIe bandwidth to Gen3 here doesn't result in as drastic performance losses as our first two games, but the 1% lows are still poor and the average frame rate is down by 8%.

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