Metro Exodus Retested – More Cards, More RT, More DLSS!
Peter Donnell / 6 years ago
Graphics Card Test System
- Motherboard – Aorus Z390 Gaming Master
- Processor – Intel Core i9-9900K (Stock)
- RAM – Crucial Ballistix Gaming 32GB (4 x 8GB) 3000 MHz
- CPU Cooler – Noctua NH-D15S
- Power Supply – Be Quiet Power Zone 1000W
- Main Storage Drive – Toshiba OCZ VX500 500GB
- Chassis – Thermaltake Core P5 TG
- Operating System – Windows 10 64-bit
- Monitor – AOC 28-Inch 4K Gaming Monitor
Gaming
To gauge performance levels which are easily reproduced time after time, by both ourselves and our readers, we now stick strictly to games default profiles. With our previous reviews, we used the “Medium or Normal” preset. However, as GPUs get faster, we’ve now moved that up to “High” profiles for all games, at all resolutions. V-Sync is always disabled in our testing, as are FreeSync and G-Sync technologies or similar. Graphics card power usage set to optimised or balance, and the system power mode set to High Performance within Windows and the available GPU driver software. Identical settings are used for all resolutions unless otherwise stated.
For Ray Tracing, we use the HIGH profile setting in the Metro Benchmark Tool. DLSS testing is done also, at least on cards and resolution which both support it, and are available to us in the benchmark tool.
GPUs Featured
- PowerColor Devil RX580
- AMD Radeon Vega 56
- Sapphire VEGA 64
- ASUS 9Gbps GTX 1060
- PNY XLR8 GTX 1070
- MSI Gaming GTX 1070 Ti
- Nvidia FE GTX 1080 Ti
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
- ASUS Strix RTX 2060
- Aorus Xtreme RTX 2070
- EVGA XC Ultra RTX 2080
- MSI RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z