VRAM Usage, Wrap Up

Before wrapping things upward, here's a look at some older GPUs using the normal quality preset at 1080p. Here we encounter that the old GTX 580 and its 1.5GB frame buffer actually can't get the job done and sadly the performance was far from playable. The GT 1030 also suffers the aforementioned fate, as does the GTX 650 Ti, while the GTX 950 was borderline playable.

From the red team, the Hard disk 7790 was no good and nor was the RX 550, though you should exist able to become playable performance out of the R7 260X.

For a more optimal experience, the GTX 680, 770 or HD 7950 will be required. At the meridian of the graph and non that far behind the RX 570 nosotros detect the R9 290, 280X, Hd 7970 also as the GTX 780 Ti.

I was hoping for a greater functioning uplift when using the normal quality settings, though while the RX 570 only saw a 14% boost, the GTX 1050 Ti became 25% faster. Overall, when running at 1080p using the normal quality preset the game is very playable on a wide range of graphics cards.

Here'southward a quick look at VRAM allotment using the ultra quality preset at the three tested resolutions. As you can see, the game allocates around 3GB of memory at 1080p, 3.5GB at 1440p when available and 4GB at 4K. You'd expect this to make the 3GB 1060 a stuttery mess at 1440p and 4K, simply honestly it wasn't really any different from the 6GB model.

Wrap Upward

Well, that concludes our initial Far Weep five testing and we can say right out of the gate that this game looks and plays well. Although we've merely merely stuck to testing with presets, at that place'southward a reasonable amount of quality settings that tin be fine-tuned for those that like to really tweak the visuals.

Having just checked out Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and been super impressed with how well that game ran on both AMD and Nvidia hardware, information technology'south great to see another title that's well optimized for both Radeon and GeForce owners. Then once more, neither title is riddled with GameWorks, then possibly the well balanced performance shouldn't be too surprising.

Next up, I'one thousand keen to throw a few dozen CPUs at this championship and of course compare a broad range of Coffee Lake and Ryzen processors. From what I've seen then far, Far Cry 5 looks well optimized for the cadre-heavy Ryzen CPUs, then we should see some competitive numbers.

We'll too look at revisiting this criterion when Nvidia releases a game-ready driver -- we merely have to wait and see what kind of operation gains that will bring. For now we can say that Far Cry five runs well on Nvidia hardware, though it's the RX Vega GPUs that have impressed us the most, particularly Vega 56. It's a real shame this menu isn't as competitive in more titles.

Update: We checked out the new Nvidia drivers that bring Far Cry 5 optimizations. Nosotros tested on the GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 Ti and no performance uplift was noticed. Nosotros'll report back if nosotros observe anything worth noting.