Bonus Materials: Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered Performance Data (Patreon)

Hi everyone, a huge amount of video uploads have completed and we can finally share our Spider-Man performance data in its entirety. The venerable GTX 1060 faces off against RX 580, the RTX 3080 10GB takes on the RX 6800 XT, while we have a somewhat less evenly matched face-off as the RTX 3060 trounces the RX 6600. 

There's quite an interesting methodology with these videos. Typically, we'd take the captured video then use an editing tool to synchronise clips and 'cut them out' for matching video streams. The cutting out procedure also cuts out the relevant performance data which is written on the fly in concert with the capture. Typically you find a common frame in the two streams then choose X number of frames from there.

For these streams with so much data, we're looking at just one capture for each GPU, no cutting out required. What we do here is to overlap two performance analyses, typically using scene cuts to synchronise the feeds. In this way you get to see a whole lot more data because you aren't 'cutting bits out' and therefore missing out in visualising some areas of performance. You can see how this version of the process works in this behind-the-scenes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h26HrHoTLBk

However, especially at 4K resolution, rendering out these head-to-heads is intense work, made all the more intense because the slow graphing renders are actually done twice - once per GPU, overlaid over one another. The advantage of the 'cut out' approach is that it's one frame graph render with two sets of inputs. My solution to this? Render out complete video streams overnight via batch processing. The unedited streams I rendered out typically took 2.5 hours each for circa 20 minutes of content... which says to me we need to heavily optimise the graph rendering. 

Anyway, here are all of the downloads:

GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/bonus-material-marvels-spider-man-rtx-3080-vs-rx-6800-xt

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6600: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/bonus-material-marvels-spider-man-rtx-3060-vs-rx-6600

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs Radeon RX 580 8GB: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/bonus-material-marvels-spider-man-gtx-1060-vs-rx-580