Resident Evil 3: PC graphics performance benchmark review (Page 7)

Resident Evil 3: PC graphics performance benchmark review

Game reviews 126 Page 7 of 7 Published 2020-03-30 17:00 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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Admittedly, remastered console port or not, I do like this game, I really do. Graphics are pretty darn good to be brutally honest, and at MAX quality settings, pretty much any card can run the game in its accompanying resolutions. So the mainstream, cards can manage quite well at Full HD, high-end cards WQHD and the enthusiast beasts in Ultra HD.

That said there are many settings available that will increase your framerate, just peek at the AA and shadow options for example. Also, the balanced mode offers a nice bump in performance, with what can be considered as fair quality degradation. But hey, as a PC gamer I expect you want the best settings, ergo that's what we test an focus on. So MAX perf settings will run well on most cards, however, 8GB of graphics memory here is a bit mandatory. Then again a Radeon 5600 XT (6GB) does perform well, but we did notice a bigger than expected perf hit.

the character models are very detailed

The majority of modern graphics card will run this game pretty well, but simply not in the heaviest quality settings at the higher resolutions, that so far is a fact. Probably everybody will need to balance things out a little if you aim for that super image quality, or better playability framerate wise. The big advantage on a PC, of course, remains that image quality is something you can configure, as otherwise, you'd be playing on a console. It's a good looking game at high-quality and at best quality settings. At the best settings in Ultra HD, you'll need some serious serious horsepower (pardon the pun) to reach that 60 FPS domain. But here again, please do fiddle and twiddle a little with the image quality settings as these are the conundrum of all complexity. With any reasonably modern graphics card, up-to 1920x1080 really is not an issue, the WQHD domain is easy enough for any modern card to ooze out decent framerates. Again 8 GB is the absolute 2020 sweet spot. Aside from a random occasional stutter and some FPS drops the game is playable and enjoyable. AMD is doing well in the title with the 5700 cards alright, but so is NVIDIA overall, we did see framerates a flatten out a bit at Full HD though we have to re-check and wait on an NVIDIA optimized driver, as at the time of writing that was not yet available. Then again, most cards pass 100 FPS even with the current 445.75 and 445.78 drivers, you can't complain about that really.

Before we end this conclusion, some oddities. We measure in-game, and no matter how precise we follow our 30-second path, results were never 100% the same. Take a little bit of an offset/margin in mind, please. Secondly, we discovered after all our testing that running four cores and eight threads were faster than 8 cores and sixteen threads specifically in a Full HD (CPU bound) resolution, praise console ports hallelujah! That is what it is though as the cards affected by it are the most expensive and fast ones, we doubt you'd ever even notice this and we also doubt with the high-end cards you'll be playing at Full HD.

Things really start to look better at the MAX quality mode, and sure either 2560x1440 resolution wise or something above that up-to Ultra HD, serves this game the best. Overall the game offers hours of enjoyable game-play, there is little negative to mention aside from the fact you'll need to like the genre. The game looks good, really, and the characters have a lot of detail. Jill even is a bit sexy looking in that Tomb Raider style.

We have no doubt that NVIDIA will release a game ready driver as well, once available we'll re-check results and update them (if necessary). April 3 sees the public release of Resident Evil 3 —which is part of AMD's Raise the Game bundle. Until April 25, gamers who purchase Radeon RX 5700 series and RX 5600 series graphics products can enjoy it along with Monster Hunter World: IceBorne Master Edition and three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC free of charge. I have to admit, I had a great time playing Resident Evil 3, a bit short maybe. As stated, graphics are good, being slightly better than Resident Evil 3. if you like the genre, definitely check it out.

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