A recent Digital Foundry research revealed major performance discrepancies in the highly anticipated PC game Starfield. AMD GPUs outperform Nvidia and Intel equivalents in terms of game performance. When running Starfield on an Intel system, the Radeon RX 6800 XT outscored the RTX 3080 by 46%, according to Digital Foundry.
Given that they are market competitors, the performance differential between the two GPUs is pretty astounding. While the RX 6800 XT already surpassed the RTX 3080 by a slight margin in several titles, the 46% difference in Starfield’s performance is far larger than what is generally seen in head-to-head tests between the two cards.
The disparity between AMD and Nvidia GPUs in Starfield, according to Digital Foundry, is unmatched among rasterized titles.
The optimised performance of the game on AMD GPUs can be ascribed to AMD and Bethesda’s tight collaboration during the game’s development. To optimise the game for AMD graphics cards, AMD engineers worked closely with Bethesda devs. Nvidia and Intel, on the other hand, may have had limited access to the game due to an exclusive deal with a competitor.
Furthermore, Digital Foundry discovered that Intel CPUs performed poorly in Starfield when compared to AMD counterparts. Enabling hyperthreading on Intel chips resulted in poorer performance, however AMD’s Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) had no detrimental influence on frame rates but did result in spikier frame timings. According to Digital Foundry, Starfield appears to be optimised for AMD systems, with space for improvement in terms of optimisation for Intel and Nvidia devices.
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