It's been a week since Starfield came out and PC players have been noticing a major differences in the game's PC performance depending on what kind of rig they run, even if raw specs balance out. Bethesda's space RPG seems to run a tad bit better with AMD GPUs - unsurprising, considering Bethesda's partnership with the company.
shared new findings by Digital Foundry that reveals Starfield runs smoother on AMD GPUs compared to its Nvidia and Intel counterparts. According to the report, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is 46% faster when compared to the RTX 3080 on an Intel Core i9-12900K system when running Starfield.
This is a huge performance gap when comparing the two GPUs that have been positioned to compete with each other. The RX 6800 XT did overtake the RTX 3080 in benchmarks when it was released but only by a few percentage points in certain games. Having a 46% performance margin is far bigger than the norm in most head-to-head comparisons between both cards.
If you're on Intel and Nvidia you're getting a bizarrely worse experience here in comparison to AMD GPUs in a way that's completely out of the norm," Digital Foundry's Alexander Battaglia said in a 32-minute detailed technical review of Starfield on PC.