Examined: Redfall PC performance on 8 different graphics cards

Multi-platform sport releases generally tend to purpose for a performance goal on a console, then go away the PC model of the sport to the whims of no matter {hardware} you occur to be operating. That means performance for PC avid gamers is one thing of a crapshoot — latest examples like The Last of Us and Jedi: Survivor present how that appears when it goes unsuitable. But what of Redfall, the much-anticipated multiplayer vampire shooter from Arkane Studios? Let’s take a deep dive into the way it performs on PC.

PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray tried out Redfall on a whopping eight different graphics cards, starting from super-affordable to “I guess I’m not paying rent this month” costly. Here are the cards, 4 from Nvidia, three from AMD, and one from Intel, all examined on the identical benchmark system.

• MSI GeForce RTX 4080 VENTUS 3X OC
• ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4070 OC
• EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC Gaming
• Founders Edition Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
• Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT
• Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6750 XT
• XFX Speedster QICK 210 Radeon RX 6500 XT
• Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition

The purpose of this take a look at isn’t essentially to pit the cards in opposition to one another like…effectively, like a bunch of heavily-armed survivors capturing vampires in a sleepy Massachusetts city. No, it’s to see what settings you might want to get to hit a 60fps goal for easy gameplay. That being mentioned, it shouldn’t be stunning that the larger, beefier cards can typically get extra visible goodies in beneath that performance goal.

Performance for the pre-release model of Redfall is a bit iffy. While it’s typically easy, any form of movement within the extremely detailed environments may cause framerate dips and jitters, to say nothing of when fight begins and lighting results are going wild. Even the RTX 4080 struggles to keep up 60 frames per second in 4K with comparatively excessive settings.

To see the perfect settings for the related graphics cards, use the chapter breaks within the video above to search out the closest card to the one you’re utilizing. While these cards from Asus, MSI, EVGA, Nvidia, Sapphire, XFX, and Intel might not be equivalent to the precise mannequin you personal, you may typically belief that graphics cards based mostly on the identical GPU (with varied cooling and OC tweaks) will carry out at about the identical degree, give or take 5 %. Your CPU, RAM, and monitor decision will add additional variables, after all.

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Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer