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It's six year old mid-tier performance.

AMD marketing had to dig pretty deep to find decent numbers...4-5 year old games. Metro Exodus? Shadow of the Tomb Raider? GTA 5? And some random kid's game nobody has ever heard of?

Given the choices are between "buggy as hell" (Intel) "space heater and slightly buggy" (AMD discreet) and "good but stupidly overpriced" (Nvidia), a fourth option, for the low end of the market, is welcome.

Edit: since I'm being downvoted for claiming the games listed aren't relevant: go look at steamcharts. GTA5 and Dota are the only top 25 games; Cyberpunk is #26. The rest aren't even top 100 games.

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Kid's game? Tiny Tina/Borderlands is a huge franchise in gaming. I think its clear these two games were chosen because the cell-shaded style they use is less GPU demanding, but its still impressive. But note things like Cyberpunk 2077 is there too. These are all popular games. I don't think its this dishonest ploy you're making out to be.

My 2070 barely handles those games at that fps.

Yes those are older games because this APU is not going to play modern AAA at 4k, but it can handle some pretty hefty games fairly well and might be tempting to budget gamers especially when mid-tier cards start at $500-600 nowadays.

There are 2,000 people playing Tiny Tina on Steam.

There are a million people playing CS2. Fortnite sees about 2.6 million and peaks at eleven million.

The Finals has 70,000+ people playing.

Tiny Tina has about 1/5th of the player count it would need to be in the top 100. So yes, AMD marketing was pretty fucking desperate when they listed that game.

> There are 2,000 people playing Tiny Tina on Steam.

The game is cross-platform and available on PS4/PS5, Xbox X/S, Xbox One, Steam and Epic Store. And on top of that it is a paid game. I'm not even aware what this game is, but I'm aware of Borderlands franchise and they're quality games.

Why would you compare player numbers to top f2p games is beyond me.

That game selection isn't an accident. They're all extremely popular and/or have a benchmark built-in.

Look at any third-party review and you'll find a very similar selection.

With the exception of GTA5 and DOTA2, none of the games they list are even in the top 50 on Steamcharts.

"and/or have a benchmark built in" doing a whole lot of lifting...

And League of Legends and World of Tanks. Why would you expect to find singpleplayer to top the charts? Especially when they're not new.

Crysis was used in benchmarks for how long exactly? And it wasnt like it was a blockbuster either...

Maybe you should make an actual performance argument instead of a popularity contest.

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