In this article we'll examine Total War: Warhammer in our usual geeky fashion. We'll test the game on the PC platform relative towards graphics card performance with the latest AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers. Multiple graphics cards are being tested and benchmarked with the latest cards such as the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 included.

With the newest graphics cards and technologies we'll try and see how well performance in DirectX 12. We test with the game based on the release last week, all patched up combined with AMD Radeon Software Crimson 16.5.3 drivers and for Nvidia their GeForce 368.22 and 368.25 (Pascal) WHQL driver. This article will cover benchmarks in the sense of average framerates, we'll look at all popular resolutions scaling from Full HD (1920x1080/1200), WHQD (2560x1440) and of course that big-whopper of a resolution Ultra HD. UHDTV (2160p) is 3840 pixels wide by 2160 pixels tall (8.29 megapixels), which is four times as many pixels as 1920x1080 (2.07 megapixels). We'll also briefly look at multi-GPU scaling as well as frametime performance and latency issues as measured with FCAT and look at CPU scaling.