Image quality settings and benchmark system
Image quality settings and benchmark system
Before we begin with the graphics performance tests a little explanation. Far Cry New Dawn uses an enhanced version of the Dunia 2 engine. Though the game uses DirectX 11 API, the development team have optimized the game extensively to take advantage of hardware capabilities. Furthermore, the game is a testament to achieving proper visual fidelity while keeping overall polygon count in check. Nature lovers will be pleased to find very dense foliage and clutter, all possible through clever usage of the engine’s impostor system.
We test with Ultra quality settings enabled. The game will allow settings like aspect ration, FOV, FPS locking and resolution scaling can all be fooled around with, “The game will auto-detect the user’s hardware and will set the matching quality preset and resolution.”
The graphics cards tested
In this article, we'll make use of the following cards at a properly good PC experience graphics quality wise, the quality mode as shown above with Vsync disabled (which needs to be done by editing a configuration file). The graphics cards used in this test are:
- GeForce GTX 1050 3GB
- Geforce GTX 1050 Ti (4GB)
- GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB)
- GeForce GTX 1070
- GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
- GeForce GTX 1080
- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
- GeForce GTX 980
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti
- GeForce RTX 2060
- Geforce RTX 2070
- Geforce RTX 2080
- Geforce RTX 2080 Ti
- GeForce Titan Xp
- Radeon R9 390X (8GB)
- Radeon R9 Fury
- Radeon RX 470 (8GB)
- Radeon RX 480 (8GB)
- Radeon RX 570 (4GB)
- Radeon RX 580 (8GB)
- Radeon RX 590
- Radeon RX Vega 56
- Radeon RX Vega 64
- Radeon VII
- System specifications & drivers
Test environment (system specification)
Our graphics card test system has been upgraded. The recent premium GeForce RTX cards have been showing a bit of CPU limitation in the lower resolutions. We are using an eight-core Intel Core i9 9900K processor on the Z390 chipset platform. Next, to that, we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). We use Windows 10 all patched up. Each card runs on the same PC with the same operating system clone.
System Spec
- Core i9 9900K
- Z390 (ASRock Tachi Ultimate)
- 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz CL16
- NVMe M.2. SSD WD Black
Graphics drivers
- GeForce graphics cards use the latest 418.91 WHQL driver (download).
- Radeon graphics cards we used the latest AMD Radeon Adrenalin 19.2.2 driver (download).
