VRAM Usage - Image quality vs performance - and comparison

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, we already addressed this bit of course. But let's have a look at the chart below. The listed MBs used in the chart is the measured utilized graphics memory during our testing. 

Far Cry New Dawn will eat up and fill your VRAM efficiently but the developers made very sure that roughly 4 GB usage is the upper limit being used. Above some random cards ranging from 4 GB up-to 11GB, all of them utilizing a maximum of ~4GB, that's including the measurements at 4K Ultra HD, well .. a screen resolution of 3840x2160. With the graphics memory filled at 4GB you are not going to notice anything weird, the game runs very smooth overall. Again, all cards consume roughly the same amount of VRAM.

Image quality modes

Let's have a peek at the best and worst image quality differences and the performance effect of them. The game offers four preset quality modes ranging from low to ultra quality. Comparing them all, mostly backgrounds like mountains, vegetation, shadows, and water effects are responsible for the biggest differences. 

Let's take the Radeon RX 570 8GB as an example, this is a pretty nice mainstream card that has could benefit from a different quality mode.  We'll take WQHD, or (Wide) Quad HD as-as resolution of choice:

So from Ultra to Low quality, there's a 25% performance bracket to play with image quality wise relative to performance.

This game offers four preset quality settings modes. Differences in low and normal quality modes are mostly based on settings like shadows and number of ambient effects, from there onwards with the high and highest ultra quality modes, texture quality. Pretty much any modern age graphics card can run at least high-quality settings, maybe even ultra quite well.

Mind you there's also an HD texture pack available, we tested and it has no effect on the performance of you have a 4GB or more graphics memory.

The ultra-quality preset is obviously the best-looking mode available, above you can see a Radeon RX 570 8G at work. If you look at quad HD (2560x1440) you'll scale from say 51 FPS on High quality, towards almost 60 FPS in the low-quality mode. The perf definitely is a little more stringent compared to Far Cry 5, but not at all bad.

Quality comparison

The recently introduced image slider system seems to be appreciated so below you can compare the four quality modes (compared towards ultra Quality).