AMD Radeon R9 Nano Versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

By Nathan Kirsch

Star Wars: Battlefront

Star Wars Battlefront

Star Wars: Battlefront is a series of first- and third-person shooter video games based on the Star Wars films. Players take the role of soldiers in either of two opposing armies in different time periods of the Star Wars universe. Star Wars: Battlefront is built on the Frostbite 3 engine. Thief is the fourth title in the Thief series, developed by Digital Illusions CE and published by EA DICE/Disney Interactive on November 17, 2015.

Starwars Battlefront Graphics Settings

We ran Star Wars: Battlefront with the image quality settings set at Ultra and VSYNC was disabled. We used FRAPS to benchmark with these settings on Battle on Tatooine.

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Benchmark Results: The performance gap between the GeForce GTX 980 and Radeon R9 Nano were wider in Star Wars: Battlefront than any other benchmark. We found the Radeon R9 Nano had a 15 FPS lead over the GeForce GTX 980 at 2560×1440.

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Benchmark Results: When moving up to 3840×2160 the Radeon R9 Nano had smaller a 7.5 FPS lead over the GeForce GTX 980.