Far Cry 5 PC graphics performance benchmark review
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Hilbert Hagedoorn
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For those interested, I have just added some Ryzen CPU results.
Dimitrios1983
Do you need a CPU that has SSE4.1 or 4.2 or whatever old CPU's lack? Have a Phenom 965BE running around 4.0GHZ and no issues on most games.
Loophole35
Vega doing great in this title Nvidia will likely get a little faster with a driver update or two but overall performance is great out of the box. It's nice to see lower end cards like the RX460, 1050 and 1050ti handle ultra 1080p that good. Set the game to mostly high settings and go a little light on AA and even budget PC's will have great IQ.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
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I have added another set of screenshots, showcasing image quality, all downloadable in uncompressed quality.
allesclar
Thanks for the write up Hilbert.
This game has gone on the list to buy me thinks 🙂
schmidtbag
Not as strange as you might think. Remember, hyper-threading does not run tasks in parallel. Depending how the threads are allocated, you can actually lose performance because one thread could be waiting for another one to finish. When you have all threads running in parallel (as they would be forced to do in a 4c/4t CPU) you can't encounter this affinity/scheduler issue.
I'm a little bit surprised this game wasn't optimized for HT/SMT, let alone more threads, when you consider console hardware.
LocoDiceGR
Is this tested with 18.3.4?
Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Yes, as listed in the article.
LocoDiceGR
Yeah, sorry i just saw it.
warlord
For the past few days we have been nagging Nvidia for a driver, they had nothing available, however, will release a new WHQL driver on Tuesday. Once that driver is out, we'll revalidate the GeForce card results and see if there are any gains to be found in performance. AMD has provided their 18.3.4 driver, which will be released Monday night March 26th CET.
Interesting, so Nvidia cards could perform even better as I see this, AMD cards are already optimized.
Netherwind
Where did you see that?
According to the official system requirements 4K/60fps requires a pair of GTX 1080 in SLI mode. This is in line with Hilberts benchmark results where the stock 1080 only achieves ~40fps.
http://blog.ubi.com/en-GB/far-cry-5-pc-specs-system-requirements-revealed/
Hilbert Hagedoorn
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I guess it depends on what you find acceptable? A GTX 1080 sits in the 40fps domain at 3840x2160 which I agree is very playable. Most (I believe) 60 fps is the more 'acceptable' norm for that resolution.
Dragondale13
Woohoo! 4K 48fps lock ultra, shadows low...fun times are here again yey!!!:):):):)
anxious_f0x
Hilbert, what’s the actual individual CPU core usage like in this? Does it max out one CPU core like previous titles or is the workload more evenly distributed across available cores this time?
Great review as always 🙂
warlord
As it seems 1070 sli / 980ti sli is more like it they are exaggerating by asking 2 1080.
StewieTech
Damn, the graphics! I swear it gets so much better every year. I seems it was yesterday i played gta vice city and was amazed at the sunrays popping in. Far cry 3 isnt so old and just look at this, its leaps forward! Soon we´ll have photorealistic graphics. Damn.
Truder
Sub par non-gaming graphics cards doing rather well wouldn't you say? 😉
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Gangsta on one core, sweet on the others. No, fair point. I just added a graph to the CPU chapter displaying that. One core gets hit the hardest, but overall there is some proper threading going on. The screenshot is in-game, not the benchmark.
Noisiv
Congrats to Hilbert and to everyone else.
Guys we made it. We are on Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/03/26/far-cry-5-is-playable-on-ultra-with-26-different-graphics-cards/#2642023537dc
anxious_f0x
Thanks 😀
