Star Wars: Battlefront – AMD VS Nvidia Performance Review

Introduction  

When Disney bought Star Wars back in 2012 we all wondered exactly what this would mean for the franchise, with new owners things were no doubt going to change and DICE’s Battlefront is no doubt one of the many fruits of those changes, be it for better or for worse.

With the series Canon changing and the new films still not being released EA had a very short leash in order to build their first Star Wars game, firstly it couldn’t interfere with series canon, taking away the option of a story driven single player campaign and it must be something which despite this has to drive interest for both the game itself and the upcoming movies. 

What many people believe Star Wars Battlefront is is a Battlefield game that has been set in the Star Wars Universe, after all it is using the Frostbite engine and is even developed by DICE themselves. I can assure you that this game is not a simple Battlefield clone, but something that is very different indeed. 

 

 

Test Setup  

We will be testing this game on our dedicated GPU test rig using the current flagship GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia. Both GPUs will be the reference design and will be ran at stock settings. 

 

AMD R9 Fury X & Nvidia GTX 980Ti
Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.7GHz
ASUS Maximus VIII Hero
G.Skill Ripjaws 4x4GB DDR4 3200MHz
Corsair HX1200i
Corsair H110i
Windows 10 x64 

  

Nvidia GTX 980Ti (Left), AMD R9 Fury X (Right)