Far Cry New Dawn Performance Analysis – 12 Cards Tested!

Low, Medium, High, Ultra

There are dozens, if not hundreds of combinations we could test. However, for most gamers, we like to keep things super simple, and stick with a games default profiles to make retesting pretty straight forward. This chart is not sorted by a resolution, but left in the order of testing for easy comparison.

We picked two popular high-end, but not flagship cards, the Vega 64 and the RTX 2070. This is purely to test what effect each graphics profile has on the frame rate for both an AMD card, and then an Nvidia card, not to see which brands card beats what. It’s what the game does, not what the cards do, that really matters here.

2160p AMD

Amazingly, Low to medium only had a 5 FPS change. Going to High, another 3 FPS was lost, and three more again for Ultra. This was surprising given the extreme difference in on-screen quality. Overall, low to high difference was just 11 FPS, although only the 70% scaling test broke 60 FPS confidently.

1440p AMD

This was more robust, but again, quite a close result overall. We lost 23 FPS from low to ultra. Amazingly, ultra with 70% scaling performed close to our medium graphics setting.

1080p AMD

Framerates are clearly not an issue at this setting. However, it cost another 23 FPS going from Low to Ultra. The drop from High to Ultra was the most drastic though; 12 FPS loss overall. Setting the scaling to 70% didn’t help much either, and it seems the game wasn’t too happy to do anything than give us a worse looking image for this resolution.

2160p Nvidia

4K seems pretty playable at any setting it seems, at least on this card, which is admittedly pretty powerful anyway. We lost 11 FPS going from Low to Ultra, but only 3 FPS between High and Ultra, which is impressive. Dropping to 70% scaling, performance matched the Medium performance at 1440p. Amazing, since this is still higher than 1440p, with higher fideiliy settings too.

1440p Nvidia

From what we’ve seen dropping below High really isn’t needed, even on older cards. However, the cost of going from High to Ultra was 11 FPS, but still an affordable drop in performance for faster cards at least.

1080p Nvidia

Strangely, High performed better than Medium, it seems this game gets a bit erratic at 1080p. Ultra didn’t come cheap at a 28 FPS loss from Low. However, percentage wise going from High to Ultra was just a 15% drop, which isn’t that bad.