Call of Duty: WW2: PC graphics analysis benchmark review - Graphics memory (VRAM) usage and conclusion

Graphics memory (VRAM) usage

How much graphics memory does the game utilize versus your monitor resolution with different graphics cards and respective VRAM sizes? Well, let's have a look at the chart below. The listed MBs used in the chart are the maximum measured utilized graphics memory during the test run. 

The listed MBs used in the above chart is the maximum measured utilized graphics memory during the test run. During game-play, the game is swapping and loading stuff. You can choose a pre-caching mode that will load up and during scene load, we recommend it as it prevents stutters in game loading stuff. As such in the most scenarios you'll notice your VRAM is nearly or 100% filled flat out full, then memory gets emptied chunk by chunk bit and then filled again. VRAM behaves a little weird as we have seen some occasions where high resolutions used a bit more memory than a lower one. The next run it was normal and another reversed again. Overall, the game will load up as much as it can for caching purposes in a very dynamic fashion.

Up-to Full HD (1920x1080) in fact any ~4 GB graphics card of decent caliber should do the job well. Likely 4 GB or more should be sufficient for 2560x1440. If you want to play Ultra quality with Ultra HD as preferred monitor resolution, 4GB or better is always advised but in this game, not needed. The title basically is a fill most you can type of game. E.g. it buffers as much as need and as it would like to.
 

 
Concluding

First off, 8GB system RAM isn't really enough with the better settings; you want 12GB at a minimum which also is recommended, so that makes sense. 

So then, how many times a game can be re-spun?, with the COD series apparently fourteen times already and it remains to be a hit slash cash-cow. It is however great to see the move back to WW2, the classics. Game engine wise, I have to admit, it doesn't look bad at all and the game is pretty terrific. The added benefit of a light-weight game, however, is that you will not require a hugely expensive graphics card at all to play the game, even at the very best image quality settings. But, how nice would it have been to see the development team to make a D3D12 version?
 

  
One complaint about the game (and this goes for many games these days), is that it quite easily eats away 50 GB of your expensive SSD space. The download sizes and installs numbers are getting hideously big in volume size. From a graphics point of view, the good news is that you will not require an enthusiast class PC to run at the very best quality. Up-to 2560x1440 a GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580 will hold really well. 

Call of Duty WW2 will NOT very likely make it into our regular benchmark suite for video cards. In the past, we run into this as well, but there are things odd and off. As such we recommend you to look at the performance benchmarks as indicative performance. At one point the result set would be 50 FPS and on the second similar path and execution 42 FPS and another 56 FPS. This means that the results shown today are indicative, not a precise measurement. Another problem was that some levels average out at say 40 FPS, yet there are a handful of scenes where the framerate will crumble down to say 25 FPS or where running a luxurious 60 FPS all of the sudden. That is the reality of this game engine. But hey, BF1 shows the same behavior.

The vast majority of the game plays with proper framerates though, even with a somewhat mainstream card. Overall the game feels smooth in game-play, nothing negative to mention there. As always, we do hope you like this little test as it will be an indicator of overall performance. All modern graphics cards will run the game at Full HD without any issue. There is just no need to drop down in images quality modes too massively and heck, that's where we as PC gamers need to be. For the single game players out there, the storyline of the single-player campaign is actually fairly nice and offers enjoyable the gameplay.

Please do make sure you have installed the latest compatible graphics card driver, the new 17.11.1 or higher driver from AMD, as well as at least GeForce 388.13 or the newer drivers as these, have been optimized for the game. You can download the latest AMD Catalyst drivers here and the Nvidia GeForce drivers here.

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