Low, Medium, High, Ultra
This is one of my favourite tests, it’s not about who’s faster, AMD or Nvidia. I want to see how well the games graphics profiles scale on each brand of cards. I’ve chosen a modest card from each brand, and the GTX 1660 Ti goes first. As you can see, our High figures are the same as we got from our multi-GPU test on the last page. However, while we did use high, the cost for moving up to medium is barely there. I would suggest using Ultra if you have the frame rate for it, as it’s hardly a GPU intensive leap.
However, if you are below 60 FPS, or below whatever frame rate you target, there’s a lot to benefit from dropping to medium. We saw a boost of 16 FPS at 1080p, 11 FPS at 1440p, and 6 FPS at 4K. The game still looked superb too.
Dropping to low was much more noticeable, as it heavily changed lighting, smoke, and shadows for the game. However, the performance leap was huge. 64 FPS higher at low than at ultra at 1080p alone. For those on older hardware, this kind of boost can be a huge benefit, so well done to the developers for keeping our options open.
The RX 580 isn’t as fast as the GTX 1660 Ti we tested above. However, it still scored 60 FPS at 1080 Ultra. What’s strange is performance went up 8 FPS at 1440p, maybe an error, but we tried three times and got similar results much to my confusion. Regardless, both High and Ultra are similar performance as we saw with the Nvidia card above.
For 1440p, we had to drop down to medium or low to get good frame rates. However, the difference from High to Low was shocking. 31 FPS leaps up to 66 FPS, so again, giving legs to older hardware here.
4K was out of the question, but we did gain a whopping 13 FPS at 4K Low vs Ultra. That’s more than 50% increase in FPS.
