Riders Republic Performance Analysis

Explore the great outdoors. Riders Republic is Ubisoft’s attempt to create a very open sports game with customisable characters and large player counts. We benchmarked Riders Republic to determine its system requirements.

Florian Glaser, 👁 Florian Glaser (translated by Stanislav Kokhanyuk), Published 11/01/2021 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 ...

Technology

The biggest draw of Riders Republic is the large world filled with hundreds of other players. The game features various climate zones (forest, snow, desert), which provide a lot of variety both in terms of gameplay and visuals. In addition to skiing, players can ride bikes and fly with the help of rocket-powered wingsuits.

Because Ubisoft is not known for making games with great vehicle handling (keyword: Watch Dogs), we were initially sceptical about Riders Republic. However, the steering feels decent (after you get used to it).

We have some criticism for the settings menu, which was definitely made with consoles in mind. When using a controller, there should not be any issues. Howbeit, navigating through the menus with the mouse and keyboard is no fun.

The graphics settings menu is very expansive. There are a whole lot of settings. While the upper section of the graphics menu contains settings for resolution, refresh rate, scaling, field of view, and V-Sync (including an optional FPS cap), the lower section includes many visual settings, all of which can be changed in one fell swoop thanks to the built-in presets.

Ubisoft provides information about what effect changing each setting will have on VRAM usage (this does not appear to be very accurate, though).

At high settings, the game looks quite decent (textures and effects stand out in particular). The draw distance is also very impressive, as are the snow tracks and weather events. Positive: The game only takes up 24 GB of storage space.

Benchmark

Ubisoft would not be Ubisoft if it did not provide a built-in benchmark. However, the benchmark is only available in-game (simply opening the settings menu after launch will not work). The benchmark sequence is two minutes long and consists of a panning shot across various vegetation zones.

As can be seen from the screenshots and the video below, an FPS counter is displayed during the benchmark. Upon completion of the benchmark, there is a detailed report which can be exported – praiseworthy.

Results

The benchmarks were conducted mainly using the laptops which our partners MSI and XMG (Schenker Technologies) lent us.

FHD (1920x1080)

The minimum system requirements of Riders Republic are quite low. At low resolutions and settings, Riders Republic can become bottlenecked by the CPU. If you want to play the game at 1080p and high settings you will need a mid-range GPU with 4 or 6 GB of VRAM. Such GPUs as the RX 5600M, GeForce GTX 1650 (Ti), and the GTX 1660 Ti can run Riders Republic at 1080p and a mix of medium to maximum settings without any issues.

Riders Republic
1920x1080 Medium Preset 1920x1080 High Preset 1920x1080 Ultra Preset
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X	164 (118^min) fps ∼53% 156 (111^min) fps ∼53% 151 (103^min) fps ∼54%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Neo 15 @165 W TGP	156 (125^min) fps ∼50% 127 (107^min) fps ∼43% 115 (95^min) fps ∼41%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio	152 (114^min) fps ∼49% 144 (111^min) fps ∼49% 140 (106^min) fps ∼50%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Neo 17 @140 W TGP	151 (129^min) fps ∼49% 121 (83^min) fps ∼41% 111 (92^min) fps ∼40%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X	139 (111^min) fps ∼45% 124 (99^min) fps ∼42% 118 (92^min) fps ∼42%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Core 15 @130 W TGP	124 (87^min) fps ∼40% 98 (81^min) fps ∼34% 86 (70^min) fps ∼31%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Focus 17 @75 W TGP	85 (68^min) fps ∼28% 67 (55^min) fps ∼23% 59 (46^min) fps ∼21%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GP65 Leopard 9SD	69 (58^min) fps ∼22% 55 (47^min) fps ∼19% 50 (40^min) fps ∼18%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GP75	68 (50^min) fps ∼22% 52 (43^min) fps ∼18% 47 (37^min) fps ∼17%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GL75	60 (49^min) fps ∼19% 46 (36^min) fps ∼16% 39 (30^min) fps ∼14%
AMD Radeon RX 5600M, R7 4800H Dell G5 15 SE	48 (39^min) fps ∼16% 45 (35^min) fps ∼15% 40 (32^min) fps ∼14%

QHD (2560x1440)

The title becomes quite demanding at 1440p. Here, you will need an RTX 3050 Ti or RTX 3060 for a decent gaming experience at maximum settings.

Riders Republic
2560x1440 Ultra Preset
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X	123 (104^min) fps ∼54%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio	119 (96^min) fps ∼52%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X	92 (76^min) fps ∼40%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Neo 15 @165 W TGP	84 (72^min) fps ∼37%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Neo 17 @140 W TGP	79 (68^min) fps ∼34%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Core 15 @130 W TGP	60 (50^min) fps ∼26%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Focus 17 @75 W TGP	40 (32^min) fps ∼17%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GP65 Leopard 9SD	35 (28^min) fps ∼15%
AMD Radeon RX 5600M, R7 4800H Dell G5 15 SE	31 (25^min) fps ∼14%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GP75	30 (25^min) fps ∼13%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GL75	25 (19^min) fps ∼11%

UHD (3840x2160)

A true high-end GPU such as the GeForce RTX 3070 is required to achieve playable frame rates at 4K and ultra settings.

Riders Republic
3840x2160 Ultra Preset
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X	79 (67^min) fps ∼53%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio	72 (61^min) fps ∼48%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X	54 (47^min) fps ∼36%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Neo 15 @165 W TGP	47 (41^min) fps ∼32%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Neo 17 @140 W TGP	43 (38^min) fps ∼29%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Core 15 @130 W TGP	31 (26^min) fps ∼21%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GP65 Leopard 9SD	20 (18^min) fps ∼13%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, i7-11800H XMG Focus 17 @75 W TGP	20 (15^min) fps ∼13%
AMD Radeon RX 5600M, R7 4800H Dell G5 15 SE	18 (15^min) fps ∼12%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GP75	12 (10^min) fps ∼8%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GL75	8 (6^min) fps ∼5%

Note

Because benchmarking video games is very time consuming and is often constrained by installation/activation limits, at the time of publishing, we were able to provide only a part of our performance analysis of Riders Republic. Other graphics cards will be added in the coming days and weeks.

Overview

Test Systems

Device	GPU	CPU	RAM	OS
XMG Neo 15	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 @165 W TGP (16 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-11800H	2 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
XMG Neo 17	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 @140 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-11800H	2 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
XMG Core 15	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 @130 W TGP (6 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-11800H	2 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
XMG Focus 17	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti @75 W TGP (4 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-11800H	2 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GP65	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (6 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-9750H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GP75	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti (4 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-10750H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GL75	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (4 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-10750H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
Dell G5 15 SE	AMD Radeon RX 5600M (6 GB GDDR6)	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI Prestige 14 Evo	Intel Iris Xe (96 CUs)	Intel Core i7-1185G7	1 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
Desktop PC I	MSI GeForce RTX 3090 (24 GB GDDR6X) MSI GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB GDDR6X) MSI GeForce RTX 3070 (8 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i9-9900K	4 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
Desktop PC II	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 FE (24 GB GDDR6X) Nvidia Titan RTX (24 GB GDDR6) Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super (8 GB GDDR6) Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super (8 GB GDDR6) KFA2 GeForce GTX 1660 Super (6 GB GDDR6) PNY GeForce GTX 1660 (6 GB GDDR5) KFA2 GeForce GTX 1650 Super (4 GB GDDR6) KFA2 GeForce GTX 1650 (4 GB GDDR5) AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12 GB DDR6) AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX 5700 (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (6 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (8 GB GDDR6)	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X	2 x 32 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit

4K monitors	Nvidia drivers	AMD drivers
Asus PB287Q, Philips Brilliance 329P9H, Acer Predator XB321HK	ForceWare 496.49	Adrenalin 21.10.3

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Pos	Model	low 1280x720 Low Preset	med. 1920x1080 Medium Preset	high 1920x1080 High Preset	ultra 1920x1080 Ultra Preset	QHD 2560x1440 Ultra Preset	4K 3840x2160 Ultra Preset
2	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	318	309	292	279	229	149
11	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	148	146	141	138	131	84
12	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU	209	200	185	179	146
14	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	221	183.5ⁿ²	165.5ⁿ²	158.5ⁿ²	126.5ⁿ²	79.5ⁿ²
15	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti	284	220	188	176	136	80
22	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU		172	169	168	133	76
24	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB	236	208	173	162	124	73
25	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080		152	144	140	119	72
30	AMD Radeon RX 6800	125	124	121	116	107	65
32	NVIDIA Titan RTX	221	179	152	143	109	65
36	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU	204.5ⁿ²	159ⁿ³	133ⁿ³	122ⁿ³	90ⁿ³	47.5ⁿ²
37	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU		160	135	121	87	49
40	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070		139	124	118	92	54
41	AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT	145	142	132	129	99	51
43	AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT	132	131	120	117	92	50
44	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU	155	146.5ⁿ²	120ⁿ²	109.5ⁿ²	79ⁿ²	44ⁿ²
45	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	228	155	126	115	82	46
50	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU	189	133ⁿ²	109.5ⁿ²	100.5ⁿ²	70	39
53	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU	177	145	122	112
Pos	Model	< Prev Next >Riders Republic
Pos	Model	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K
55	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super (Desktop)				117	80	49
57	AMD Radeon RX 6800M	93	86	82	81
58	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	139	133	119	107	75	34
59	AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT	128	123	112	97	69	34
62	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU	168.5ⁿ²	140ⁿ⁴	116ⁿ⁴	106ⁿ⁴	78ⁿ²	41.5ⁿ²
64	AMD Radeon RX 6800S		105	98	92	71	35
67	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	198	124	102	79	64	36
76	NVIDIA Titan X Pascal	173	124	104	97	71	40
80	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super (Desktop)	176	131	110	100	73	40
84	AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (Desktop)	134	130	113	104	74	39
89	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU	159	115ⁿ²	88ⁿ³	81ⁿ³	59ⁿ²	30.5ⁿ²
91	AMD Radeon RX 7600S		91	87	83	68	35
98	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super (Desktop)	190	123	102	92	66	36
100	AMD Radeon RX 6600	130	123	101	85	59	29
104	AMD Radeon RX 5700 (Desktop)	138	126	104	94	66	34
106	AMD Radeon RX 6600M	89	83	77	76
107	AMD Radeon RX 6700S		100	91	88	59
132	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050	167	97	77	69	49	25
134	AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (Desktop)	134	121	98	85	58	31
141	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Desktop)	174	94	75	66	45	20
Pos	Model	< Prev Next >Riders Republic
Pos	Model	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K
142	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super (Desktop)	163	96	77	67	45	23
143	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	127	66	54	47	27	9
144	AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop)	128	92	71	62	43	22
145	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU	151ⁿ²	101.5ⁿ²	87ⁿ²	79.5ⁿ²	44
148*	Intel Arc A730M		60	51	47	34
150	AMD Radeon RX 5600M		48	45	40	31	18
152	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile		69	55	50	35	20
153	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU		86.5ⁿ²	68ⁿ²	56.5ⁿ²	40	20
158	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (Desktop)	149	86	68	59	40	20
161	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop)	130	75	58	51	34
167	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU	144	80	61	55
173	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	71	68	58	43
186	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile	119	67	51	45
187	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile		68	52	47	30	12
190*	AMD Radeon Pro 5500M	61	41	28
198	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	76	49	38	33
201	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Desktop)	120	60	46	41	27
202	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile		60	46	39	25	8
219*	NVIDIA T1200 Laptop GPU	93	50	41	40
224*	Intel Arc A350M	60	32	25	21	12	7
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Pos	Model	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K
226*	NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU	91	52	39	30
247	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile	81	39	29	8
249	AMD Radeon 680M	64.5ⁿ²	38ⁿ²	29.5ⁿ²	25.5ⁿ²
255*	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	62	33.5ⁿ²	26ⁿ²	21.5ⁿ²	8
270	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile	74	35	26	3
283	AMD Radeon 660M	56	30	23
294	AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)	63	35	26	21
316	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs	34ⁿ³	22ⁿ³	18ⁿ³	22ⁿ²	13	7
317	NVIDIA GeForce MX350	42	21	15
326	AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)	27	13	10	8
332	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (Desktop)	35	17	12	11
334	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	38	16	12
337	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs	25ⁿ³	14ⁿ³	12ⁿ³	8.5ⁿ²	5
339	NVIDIA GeForce GT 710	12	5	3
359*	AMD Radeon 540X	30	15
380	Intel UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen)	30	19	15	13
381*	Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)	19
382*	AMD Radeon RX Vega 10	28	14	10
418*	Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs	19
420*	Intel UHD Graphics Xe 32EUs (Tiger Lake-H)	21	12
Pos	Model	< Prev Next >Riders Republic
Pos	Model	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD	4K
431*	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)	38ⁿ⁵	21ⁿ⁵	15ⁿ⁵	14ⁿ⁵	10.5ⁿ²	5ⁿ²
440	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	37.5ⁿ²	18ⁿ²	13.5ⁿ²	11.5ⁿ²
457	NVIDIA GeForce MX130	24
461	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)	27	12
464	NVIDIA GeForce 930MX	23	10
508	Intel Iris Graphics 550	11
511*	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)	31	16
582*	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)	13
583*	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	28	12
584	Intel UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU)	13
585	Intel UHD Graphics 630	10
587*	Intel UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H)	13
595	Intel UHD Graphics 620	10
668	AMD Radeon R5 M255	14
669*	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3	16	8
676	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M	11

Legend
5	Stutters – This game is very likely to stutter and have poor frame rates. Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, average frame rates are expected to fall below 25fps
	May Stutter – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, stutters and poor frame rates are expected.
30	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fps
40	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fps
60	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 58fps
	May Run Fluently – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, fluent frame rates are expected.
?	Uncertain – This graphics card experienced unexpected performance issues during testing for this game. A slower card may be able to achieve better and more consistent frame rates than this particular GPU running the same benchmark scene.
	Uncertain – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game and no reliable interpolation can be made based on the performances of surrounding cards of the same class or family.
The value in the fields displays the average frame rate of all values in the database. Move your cursor over the value to see individual results.