Gears of War 5: PC graphics performance benchmark review - Concluding

Concluding

Gears of War 5 seems to be a fin and enticing game. Graphics quality-wise, it feels okay, but listen to what I am saying here, 'feels'. Realistically the game is bombarding the game with so many effects that you get a bit of a movie feel, that's good. in the end it's console port, albeit a good one. you'll get plenty of graphics options, and please do not forget the install tgh ultra textures pack from the graphics settings menu. The quality in-game seem is really okay and are more polished on the PC compared to the previous edition. It is obvious that any graphics card will run if you give it the right image quality settings. The trick with PC gaming, however, is that image quality is something you want and prefer, as otherwise, you'd be playing on a console. It's a good looking game at high-quality and at ultra quality settings. With any reasonably modern graphics card, very "high quality" settings at up-to 2560x1440 really should not be an issue and the Full HD domain is easy enough for any modern card to ooze out decent framerates. Memory wise anything starting at 4GB is the minimum all saying domain with 6GB recommended and 8 GB the sweet spot. Aside from a random occasional stutter and some FPS drops when the debris is flying closeby the title will be very playable and enjoyable to watch. Ultra HD does look very nice.

AMD has been over the game as a sponsor, and the most recent cards do play very well in terms of framerates. The enthusiast class NVIDIA cards however dominate. Again, things really start to look better at the high-quality mode and very sweet at ultra settings, and sure either 2560x1440 resolution wise or something above that up-to Ultra HD, serves this game the best. Up-to 2560x1440 the game remains very playable starting with a Radeon RX 580 or GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. At 1920x1080 the vast majority of the game plays with proper framerates though combined with any modern age graphics card. Overall the game feels good in game-play, there is little negative to mention aside from the fact you'll need to like the genre.

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