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Battlefield 1 Notebook and Desktop Benchmarks

Great visuals. Battlefield once again shows how nice a video game can look nowadays. We will find out what that means for the system requirements for notebooks as well as desktop systems.

For the original German article, see here.

Graphics

That the new title from the extremely popular shooter-series will be a success was already a sure thing after the Beta version. The final product can almost meet the high expectations completely, both in terms of gameplay as well as graphics.

Developer DICE further optimized the Frostbite 3 Engine, which is used for numerous games from EA (like FIFA 17Mirror's Edge CatalystNeed for Speed 2016 & Dragon Age Inquisition). Together with the CryEngine 4, id Tech 6, and Unreal Engine 3, it is among the best graphics engines on the market right now. Even the great-looking Star Wars Battlefront from last year is beaten in terms of visual quality.

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One of the biggest advantages of the Frostbite 3 engine is the enormous amount of details. You will not find similarly crisp textures in many titles, and the same applies for the level design. There are a lot of decoration objects like stones and bushes all the way up to debris on the extremely good-looking and diverse battlefields from World War I. The result is a great atmosphere supported by first-class effects. It does not matter if you have smoke, rain or mud: Battlefield 1 is always up to date and can even set new benchmarks.

Other highlights are the lush drawing distance and the physics simulation. Contrary to the majority of action titles, trees, fences and walls are not insurmountable obstacles. Houses can be destroyed as well, which does create some tactical possibilities. The spectacle is accompanied by a brilliant sound. Besides the music tracks, the effects (shooting sound, explosions, etc.) are impeccable.

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The single-player mode will probably create diverge opinions. The idea with the War Stories is quite interesting and promising, especially since every mission is introduced by creative videos, but the final result still feels pretty "casual". In the end – as per usual for this genre – you basically shoot your way through pretty dumb hordes of enemies, and the staging of Battlefield 1 usually falls a bit short of Call of Duty. However, the missions are a perfect preparation for the multiplayer. Players not only get used to the rudimentary sneaking system, but they also learn to control vehicles and planes.

We were not completely disappointed by the campaign. The great visual and sound quality can compensate for several gameplay and story drawbacks pretty well. Contrary to Call of Duty, we also like the slightly darker setting, which takes the war scenario a bit more seriously than some rivals and tries to avoid the glorification of violence or its minimization, respectively (you can decide whether this is a success). Subjectively, however, Battlefield 1 is not as much of a shooting gallery.

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You can hardly criticize the developers from a technological point of view. The Video menu, which is also accessible when you are playing, offers a lot of settings for experienced users. DICE divided the options into two tabs to make it easier. It starts with the Basic menu, where you can adjust the picture mode, resolution, brightness, V-Sync, drawing distance, Motion Blur and the Blur effects. Color-blind users get settings here as well.

Most settings are available in the Advanced menu, which also takes care of the DirectX mode (more on that later), the size of the HUD and the general graphics quality. If you do not like to tinker around, there are also four presets (Low, Medium, High & Ultra). Available anti-aliasing modes are FXAA and TAA. While the former does not fully eliminate aliasing and does create a certain blurriness, the latter works very well. Great: Changes are usually applied without a restart.

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Although the visual quality of Battlefield 1 suffers significantly at the lowest settings and there will be pop-ups as well as flickering objects, the game is not ugly by any means. We would call the visual quality good with the Medium preset, and very good with the High preset. There are no noteworthy differences in terms of quality or performance between High and Ultra settings. The frame rate is always capped at 200 frames per second by the way, independent of the V-Sync setting.

But back to the graphics menu: The point GPU Memory Restriction, which has a look at the VRAM load and automatically reduces details if necessary, was deactivated for our benchmarks. Resolution Scale on the other hand, which allows down- or up-sampling, respectively, was at 100%.

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We did not have any problems with crashes, bugs or severe graphics errors during the tests, but we did notice some minor issues during the benchmarks:

  • Battlefield 1 often launched in a window instead of full-screen mode at the first start
  • the loading times are not very short even with SSDs
  • returning to the desktop often takes quite some time when you exit the game
  • there can be stutters during the videos on some systems

All things considered, the engine leaves a very clean and sophisticated impression. Some other games from 2015 and 2016 can only dream of this (like Mafia 3HitmanJust Cause 3 & Batman Arkham Knight).

Benchmark

In order to get steady numbers, we use a sequence from the single-player mode for our benchmarks. The player drives a British Mark V tank through France, which is shocked by trench warfare, in the first part of the campaign mission "Through Mud and Blood".

Thanks to the identical run and the representative performance, the beginning is perfect for performance evaluations. The tank follows the path automatically for the first 30 seconds until it stops at a provisional wood bridge. Your system should be capable of at least 40 frames per second since this is a first-person action title.

Results

Despite the modern engine, the hardware requirements are pretty moderate. You will be well prepared for World War I unless your system only uses a weak low-end chip like the GeForce GT 720M or an HD Graphics model from the Intel processors. A mainstream GPU like the GeForce 940M has no problems with Very Low details and 1280x720 pixels.

Ultra Preset
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High Preset
High Preset
Medium Preset
Medium Preset
Low Preset
Low Preset
Ultra Preset
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High Preset
High Preset
Medium Preset
Medium Preset
Low Preset
Low Preset

1920x1080 pixels and the Medium preset runs smoothly with at least a GeForce GTX 860M or GTX 950M, while High settings require a GeForce GTX 870M. We recommend a GeForce GTX 880MGTX 965M or better for a combination of FHD and the preset Ultra. Users of 4K monitors can enjoy Battlefield 1 with a high-end GPU like the GeForce GTX 980 or GTX 1060, respectively. Switching to Ultra details does not really affect the performance; our GTX 1080 desktop GPU only drops from 71 to 67 FPS. Similar to the majority of titles, the CPU is not very important and the frame rate in our tests was limited by the GPU most of the time.

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    3840x2160 High Preset AA:T     1920x1080 Ultra Preset AA:T     1920x1080 High Preset AA:T     1920x1080 Medium Preset AA:FX     1366x768 Medium Preset AA:FX     1280x720 Low Preset
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop), 4790K
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition
70.6 (64min) fps ∼57%
147 (132min) fps ∼73%
162 (152min) fps ∼81%
193 (179min) fps ∼96%
200 (197min) fps ∼100%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop), 4790K
MSI Gaming Z GeForce GTX 1070 OC Bios Desktop PC
57.1 (49min) fps ∼46%
122 (106min) fps ∼61%
139 (129min) fps ∼69%
195 (184min) fps ∼97%
200 (197min) fps ∼100%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, 4790K
Asus Strix GTX 980 Ti Desktop PC
55.1 (51min) fps ∼45%
115 (104min) fps ∼57%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile, 6820HK
Asus G752VS
50.9 (43min) fps ∼41%
118 (102min) fps ∼59%
128 (115min) fps ∼64%
162 (140min) fps ∼81%
167 (157min) fps ∼83%
186 (177min) fps ∼93%
AMD Radeon R9 Fury, 4790K
XFX Radeon R9 Fury Pro
46.6 (41min) fps ∼38%
102 (79min) fps ∼51%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, 6700K
Desktop PC
39.2 (33min) fps ∼32%
96.9 (86min) fps ∼48%
105 (95min) fps ∼52%
145 (137min) fps ∼72%
194 (180min) fps ∼97%
199 (192min) fps ∼99%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop), 6700K
Desktop PC
39.2 (34min) fps ∼32%
94.6 (82min) fps ∼47%
104 (95min) fps ∼52%
143 (134min) fps ∼71%
196 (183min) fps ∼98%
199 (196min) fps ∼99%
AMD Radeon RX 480 (Desktop), 4790K
AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB Reference
38.1 (33min) fps ∼31%
89.4 (76min) fps ∼44%
88.5 (72min) fps ∼44%
99 (86min) fps ∼49%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, 4790K
MSI Gaming Z GeForce GTX 970 Desktop PC
37.5 (33min) fps ∼30%
87 (78min) fps ∼43%
AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop), 4790K
MSI RX 470 Gaming X 4GB
35.2 (29min) fps ∼29%
83 (73min) fps ∼41%
92 (83min) fps ∼46%
AMD Radeon R9 290X, 4790K
Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X OC
96 (85min) fps ∼48%
39.7 (35min) fps ∼20%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M, 4700MQ
Schenker W504
29.1 (24min) fps ∼24%
69.8 (59min) fps ∼35%
77.4 (69min) fps ∼39%
102 (92min) fps ∼51%
124 (112min) fps ∼62%
138 (116min) fps ∼69%
AMD Radeon R9 280X, 4790K
Asus Z97 Deluxe Desktop i7-4790K, R9 280X
17 (3min) fps ∼14%
60.2 (52min) fps ∼30%
66.7 (60min) fps ∼33%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M, 4700MQ
Schenker W504
22.7 (19min) fps ∼18%
55.4 (47min) fps ∼28%
58.3 (53min) fps ∼29%
84.8 (77min) fps ∼42%
122 (115min) fps ∼61%
142 (121min) fps ∼71%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M, 6700HQ
MSI GE72 965M Ti
17 (14min) fps ∼14%
42.5 (36min) fps ∼21%
51.4 (46min) fps ∼26%
67.3 (61min) fps ∼33%
104 (96min) fps ∼52%
130 (116min) fps ∼65%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M, 4700MQ
Schenker W504
15 (12min) fps ∼12%
44 (38min) fps ∼22%
45.5 (41min) fps ∼23%
65 (57min) fps ∼32%
93.8 (87min) fps ∼47%
140 (131min) fps ∼70%
AMD Radeon R7 370, 4790K
MSI Gaming R7 370 2GB
3.3 (2min) fps ∼3%
40.1 (34min) fps ∼20%
42.6 (36min) fps ∼21%
82 (76min) fps ∼41%
AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop), 4790K
XFX RX-460P4DFG5 Double Dissipation 4 GB
18.8 (16min) fps ∼15%
46.6 (38min) fps ∼23%
51 (44min) fps ∼25%
107 (93min) fps ∼53%
161 (141min) fps ∼80%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M, 4700MQ
Schenker W504
14.4 (11min) fps ∼12%
37 (30min) fps ∼18%
41.2 (34min) fps ∼20%
57.8 (51min) fps ∼29%
88.4 (79min) fps ∼44%
129 (116min) fps ∼64%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M, 4720HQ
Schenker XMG A505
12.8 (11min) fps ∼10%
33.9 (28min) fps ∼17%
37.4 (33min) fps ∼19%
52.9 (48min) fps ∼26%
84.4 (78min) fps ∼42%
129 (118min) fps ∼64%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M, 6700HQ
MSI PE60 2QD
11.9 (10min) fps ∼10%
30.2 (26min) fps ∼15%
34.3 (31min) fps ∼17%
46.4 (43min) fps ∼23%
75 (69min) fps ∼37%
97 (92min) fps ∼48%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, 4700MQ
Schenker W504
10.4 (8min) fps ∼8%
26.5 (22min) fps ∼13%
30 (27min) fps ∼15%
41.5 (36min) fps ∼21%
66.7 (57min) fps ∼33%
104 (96min) fps ∼52%
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX, 6700HQ
MSI CX72 6QD
15.6 (14min) fps ∼8%
31.7 (30min) fps ∼16%
50.6 (48min) fps ∼25%
NVIDIA GeForce 940M, 5700HQ
MSI GP62 2QD
14.7 (12min) fps ∼7%
18.7 (17min) fps ∼9%
31.5 (29min) fps ∼16%
50.2 (48min) fps ∼25%
AMD Radeon R9 M280X, FX-7600P
Asus N551ZU-CN007H
22.3 (18min) fps ∼11%
24.7 (22min) fps ∼12%
30.1 (22min) fps ∼15%
37.8 (35min) fps ∼19%
NVIDIA GeForce 920M, 2970M
MSI CX61 2QC 2970M MS-16GD
23.9 (21min) fps ∼12%
30.1 (21min) fps ∼15%
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, 4200M
MSI CX61-i572M
7.3 fps ∼4%
15.8 fps ∼8%
24.8 fps ∼12%
Intel HD Graphics 4600, 4700MQ
Schenker W504
8.9 (8min) fps ∼4%
15 (13min) fps ∼7%
24.2 (23min) fps ∼12%

DirectX 12 vs. DirectX 11

The DirectX 12 mode leaves mixed impressions. While AMD models often work well with the new Microsoft API, Nvidia chips struggle. GeForce users should also avoid DX 12 in Battlefield 1. Both the GTX 1060 as well as the GTX 960M delivered worse (repeatable) results compared to DX 11 (sometimes more than 10%). AMD's RX 480 on the other hand was slightly faster in DirectX 12 compared to DirectX 11 (benchmark sequence: +1 FPS @Ultra).

DirectX Performance GeForce GTX 1060 & Core i7-6700K GeForce GTX 960M & Core i7-4720HQ
FHD / High @DX 11 104 fps (min: 95) 37.4 fps (min: 33)
FHD / High @DX 12 92,3 fps (min: 79) 35.2 fps (min: 29)
FHD / Medium @DX 11 143 fps (min: 134) 52.9 fps (min: 48)
FHD / Medium @DX 12 123 fps (min: 112) 47.4 fps (min: 43)

Multiplayer vs. Singleplayer

There are no concerns for the multiplayer performance. We played three different multiplayer maps to check whether the benchmark sequence is representative. The tool Fraps recorded about 10 minutes of gameplay with the GeForce GTX 1060 in each case (1920x1080 pixels, maximum settings). The results were very similar to the single-player campaign.

Multiplayer Performance Notebookcheck Benchmark Sequence Argonne Forest Sinai Desert Quentin Scar
FHD / Ultra @GeForce GTX 1060 ~95 fps ~90 fps ~107 fps ~88 fps

Overview

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low
1280x720
Low Preset
med.
1366x768
Medium Preset
FXAA
high
1920x1080
High Preset
TAA
ultra
1920x1080
Ultra Preset
TAA
4K
3840x2160
High Preset
TAA
NVIDIA Titan RTX
193.7
179.9
166.2
154.2
111.8
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Desktop)
200n2
198n2
192n2
185n2
115n2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super (Desktop)
193
178
165
152
93
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (Desktop)
193.15n2
178.75n2
162.8n2
150.55n2
89n2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)
200
196
169
158
76.7
NVIDIA Titan X Pascal
175.9
156.8
138.2
124.9
104
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super (Desktop)
194
180
166
154
82
AMD Radeon VII
187
169
153
138
82
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (Desktop)
179.4n3
156.9n3
150n3
141.3n3
75.8n3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
200
193
162
147.5n2
70.65n2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super (Desktop)
193
175
157
143
68
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile
165.4
141.5
120.6
113.3
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
140n2
131.5n2
65
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop)
179
162
143
133
59.8
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
196.9n12
182.2n12
157.25n12
141.4n12
62.9n12
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
153.5n4
136.5n4
58.7n3
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
195
182
150
136
62
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)
192.1n2
179.6n2
136.75n2
122.05n2
52.4n2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
130
113
49
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
177.75n6
159.6n6
122.3n10
111.3n10
50.9n3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Desktop)
194
183
130
117
51.4
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
115
55.1
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
123.2
105.5
106n3
96.4n3
39n2
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
102
46.6
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
199
194
105
96.9
39.2
AMD Radeon RX 590 (Desktop)
192.4
151.6
112.2
98.6
43.2
AMD Radeon RX 580 (Desktop)
173.6
155
101.8
88.5
40.2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop)
174.1n2
167n2
97.95n2
88.6n2
36.45n2
AMD Radeon RX 570 (Desktop)
192
183
100
89
39.2
AMD Radeon RX 480 (Desktop)
99
88.95n2
38.1
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
126.4n4
100.75n6
77.6n9
73.6n9
30.9n2
AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
125
112
87.4
75.9
32.7
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Desktop)
193
158
78
71
28.8
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
74.5
71.1
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
87
37.5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
154
76
67.8
25.3
AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
88.8n3
79.9n3
35.2
AMD Radeon R9 290X
39.7
96
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
138
124
77.4
69.8
29.1
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AMD Radeon R9 280X
66.7
60.2
17
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
114.7n3
98.15n4
56.7n5
50.8n5
19.8
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop)
199
144
69
62.4
25.2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
142
122
58.3
55.4
22.7
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
122.15n2
102.6n2
54.9n2
51.45n2
20.9n2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)
104
92n2
40.55n2
37.1n2
13.9
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
121.4n3
101.7n3
49.9n3
44.4n3
AMD Radeon R7 370
82
42.6
40.1
3.3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
140
93.8
45.5
44
15
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
144.7
89.2
45
41.3
15.9
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
82
39
34.5
AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
161
107
51
46.6
18.8
AMD Radeon HD 7870
52
44.7
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
130
104
51.4
42.5
17
AMD Radeon RX 560 (Laptop)
79
63.2
36.7
29.3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
129
88.4
41.2
37
14.4
AMD Radeon HD 8970M
149.3
99.9
53.4
50.1
AMD Radeon Pro 560X
134
39.2
35.6
15.2
AMD Radeon Pro 460
132.6
40.9
35.4
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
129
84.4
37.4
33.9
12.8
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AMD Radeon RX 550X (Laptop)
69.1
52.2
23.8
AMD Radeon Pro 555
113
30.2
25.9
AMD Radeon Pro 455
109
28.9
25.3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (Desktop)
104.8
64.3
26.5
24.6
7.8
NVIDIA GeForce MX150
86.95n2
55.85n2
26.5n2
22.9n2
AMD Radeon RX 540
54.2
30.8
12.2
10.7
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
104
66.7
30
26.5
10.4
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
97
75
34.3
30.2
11.9
AMD Radeon Pro 450
101
24.2
21.7
AMD Radeon R9 M280X
37.8
30.1
24.7
22.3
NVIDIA GeForce MX130
57.2n2
36.25n2
18.2n2
16.4n2
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
49.4n4
30.3n4
14.85n4
12.8n3
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
46.5n2
28.3n2
13.65n2
12.35n2
NVIDIA GeForce 940M
50.2
31.5
14.7
NVIDIA GeForce 930MX
45.5
29.7
13.4
12
AMD Radeon R7 M445
40
28
13
12
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
46.1
29.5
NVIDIA GeForce 930M
40.5
26.1
Intel Iris Graphics 550
49.6
29.8
15.1
AMD Radeon 530
28.5
19.1
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NVIDIA GeForce MX110
46.5
27.8
13.3
12.1
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
29.2n3
21.9n2
10.15n2
NVIDIA GeForce 920MX
49.2
29.1
13.8
12.5
Intel Iris Graphics 540
43.4
25.3
12.6
AMD Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge)
23.3
16.7
8.3
AMD Radeon R7 (Kaveri)
13.9
AMD Radeon R7 M460
30
20.6
10.1
NVIDIA GeForce 920M
30.1
23.9
AMD Radeon R7 M440
31.8
22.7
9.6
9.6
Intel UHD Graphics 630
39.3
23.5
Intel HD Graphics 630
33.8
19.6
Intel HD Graphics 530
29.7
18.3
7.5
AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)
16.5
12.1
Intel UHD Graphics 620
29.7n3
18.8n3
8.8
7.9
Intel HD Graphics 620
30.2n3
17.2
8.2
Intel HD Graphics 5600
29.8
19.3
8.8
7.6
AMD Radeon HD 8650G
22.9
13.4
AMD Radeon R5 M430
23.7
16.1
AMD Radeon R5 M255
27.4
20.1
9.3
AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
25.5
15.7
7.1
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Intel HD Graphics 520
30.1
15.7
7.3
6.5
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
24.8
15.8
7.3
Intel HD Graphics 4600
21.1n2
13.4n2
5.2
Intel HD Graphics 5500
20.7
13.3
Intel HD Graphics 615
13
9.1
Intel HD Graphics 610
16.1
8.9
Intel HD Graphics 4400
14.1
9
AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)
8.2
AMD Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)
13.2
9.3
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell)
14.1
(-) * Smaller values are better. / n123 Number of benchmarks for this median value / * Approximate position

 

Legend
5Stutters – 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.
30Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fps
40Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fps
60Fluent – 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.
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Test Systems

Desktop-PCs Custom Nvidia Custom AMD
Mainboard Asus Z170-A Asus Z97-Deluxe
Processor Intel Core i7-6700K (Skylake) Intel Core i7-4790K (Haswell)
GPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB GDDR5)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 (4 GB GDDR5)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (8 GB GDDR5X)
Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti (6 GB GDDR5)
XFX Radeon R9 Fury (4 GB HBM)
Sapphire Radeon R9 290X (4 GB GDDR5)
Sapphire Radeon R9 280X (3 GB GDDR5)
MSI Radeon R7 370 (2 GB GDDR5)
Memory 2 x 8 GB DDR4-2133 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1600
Storage Crucial MX100 SSD (256 GB)
Crucial M500 SSD (480 GB)
OCZ Trion 100 SSD (480 GB)
OCZ Trion 150 SSD (960 GB)
Intel SSD 530 (240 GB)
OCZ Trion 100 SSD (480 GB)
OS Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Schenker Notebooks Schenker W504 Schenker XMG A505 Schenker S413
Mainboard Intel HM87 Intel HM87 Intel HM87
Processor Intel Core i7-4700MQ (Haswell) Intel Core i7-4720HQ (Haswell) Intel Core i7-4750HQ (Haswell)
GPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M (8 GB GDDR5)
GTX 970M (6 GB GDDR5)
GTX 880M (8 GB GDDR5)
GTX 870M (6 GB GDDR5)
GTX 860M Kepler (4 GB GDDR5)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M (2 GB GDDR5) Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200
Memory 2x 4 GB DDR3-1600 2x 4 GB DDR3-1600 2x 8 GB DDR3-1600
Storage Samsung SSD 840 EVO (250 GB) Micron M600 SSD (128 GB)
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 HDD (1000 GB)
Intel SSD
OS Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Windows 10 Home 64-bit Windows 10 Home 64-bit
MSI Notebooks MSI GE72 MSI PE60 MSI GP62 MSI CX61 MSI CX61
Mainboard Intel HM170 Intel HM170 Intel HM86 Intel HM86 Intel HM86
Processor Intel Core i7-6700HQ (Skylake) Intel Core i7-6700HQ (Skylake) Intel Core i7-5700HQ (Broadwell) Intel Celeron 2970M (Haswell) Intel Core i5-4200M (Haswell)
GPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M 2016 (2 GB GDDR5) Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M (2 GB GDDR5) Nvidia GeForce 940M (2 GB DDR3) Nvidia GeForce 920M (2 GB DDR3) Nvidia GeForce GT 720M (2 GB DDR3)
Memory 1 x 8 GB DDR4-2133 2 x 4 GB DDR4-2133 1 x 8 GB DDR3-1600 1 x 8 GB DDR3-1600 1 x 8 GB DDR3-1600
Storage Toshiba THNSNJ128G8NU SSD (128 GB)
WDC WD10JPVX HDD (1000 GB)
OCZ Trion 100 SSD (480 GB)
Toshiba MQ01ABF050 HDD (500 GB) WDC Scorpio Blue HDD (1000 GB)
OS Windows 10 Home 64-bit Windows 10 Windows 10 Windows 10 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Asus Notebooks Asus G752VS Asus N551ZU
Mainboard Intel CM236 AMD K15.1
Processor Intel Core i7-6820HK (Skylake) AMD FX-7600P (Kaveri)
GPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB GDDR5) AMD Radeon R9 M280X (4 GB GDDR5)
Memory 4 x 16 GB DDR4-2400 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1600
Storage Toshiba NVMe THNSN5512GPU7 SSD (512 GB) Samsung SSD 830 (256 GB)
OS Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Windows 10 64-bit
4K Monitor Nvidia driver AMD driver Intel driver
2 x Asus PB287Q ForceWare 375.57 Crimson 16.10.2 15.40.28.4501
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Florian Glaser, 2016-10-31 (Update: 2022-01-21)