Notebookcheck Logo

Dead Space Remake review: Laptop and desktop benchmarks

Fantastic remake. Roughly 15 years after the original game, EA has now released a remake of its survival-horror classic. Read our technical review to find out whether the hardware requirements will make your skin crawl as well.

Technical review

The 2023 version of Dead Space remarkably demonstrates how to create a fantastic remake. The horror game manages to find the perfect balance between nostalgia and a modern feel. Apart from the game's graphics, the developer has, for instance, also markedly improved the controls (one of the biggest complaints back then about the original game). In particular, the remake stands out visually with its lighting, i.e. light and shadow rendering. The rest of the effects (smoke, particles, fire, etc.) are similarly impressive.

Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake

That said, the game still doesn't feel very technically polished in some areas. Whilst the sometimes strange physics is more likely to make you chuckle, the stutters that happen occasionally during gameplay – regardless of the hardware and settings you use – are fairly annoying. In other words: the visuals don't feel very smooth even when the game is running at high frame rates. Just as annoying is the fact that the game frequently stutters for a while after loading. When you first boot up the remake, it also starts by optimising the shaders, which is something we have seen in games such as Call of Duty. And this process can very well take a few minutes to complete depending on your system.

Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake

If you ignore the somewhat repetitive enemy design, Dead Space is undoubtedly superb in terms of both gameplay and content. Besides the imposing atmosphere, other positive aspects include the fascinating functions of the space suits (e.g. stasis), interesting weapon abilities and upgrades, and cool physics puzzles that make the experience less monotonous. The use of the suit's computer to display information directly in the game world and the gruesome yet gameplay-relevant "tactical dismemberment" were very novel when the original first released and still remain memorable to this day.

Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake
Dead Space Remake

However, the remake's graphics menu is not as spectacular. In the upper half, you can adjust settings like brightness, motion blur, film grain, colour mode, dynamic resolution and anti-aliasing (resolution, screen mode, refresh rate, VSync and HDR are tucked away in a separate menu). The lower half houses six sliders for modifying quality settings, which can also be changed at one go via "Graphics Quality" – thankfully without having to restart the game. Even though ray tracing is automatically enabled when graphics quality is turned all the way up to max, both the visual changes and the performance difference between the various presets are not very drastic. The game also supports FSR 2.0 and DLSS. Just as a quick note: our review is based on the Steam version, which requires about 35 GB of space.

Benchmark

As you can see in the video below, for the frame rate measurement, we used a roughly 20-second sequence in the hangar where the player reaches not very far into the game (it takes around one hour of playing to get to this section). And frame rate was captured using CapFrameX. We would consider Dead Space decently playable if the average frame rate is 40 fps and above.

Results


FHD (1,920 x 1,080)

You won't have any fun with the remake if your system only has an iGPU. Both the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 and the AMD Radeon 680M got stuck loading the game and didn't even make it to the main menu. You shouldn't encounter such issues with a mid-tier dedicated GPU or better. At Full HD, a card at the same level as the Radeon RX 6600M is powerful enough to run the game at all detail levels.

Dead Space Remake
    1920x1080 Low Preset AA:T     1920x1080 Medium Preset AA:T     1920x1080 High Preset AA:T     1920x1080 Ultra Preset AA:T
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
154.5 (29.5min, 70.9P0.1, 93.4P1) fps ∼17%
148.7 (30.9min, 60P0.1, 91.5P1) fps ∼13%
131.2 (26.6min, 57.1P0.1, 82.4P1) fps ∼14%
129.5 (25.9min, 47.3P0.1, 80.4P1) fps ∼15%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
124.8 (38.2min, 49.3P0.1, 80.5P1) fps ∼14%
121.7 (37.7min, 69.2P0.1, 82.2P1) fps ∼11%
107 (28.7min, 53.7P0.1, 72.8P1) fps ∼12%
100.9 (36.3min, 49.6P0.1, 70.7P1) fps ∼11%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900HX
MSI Titan GT77 12UHS
109.3 (24.5min, 26.4P0.1, 38.1P1) fps ∼12%
108.3 (21.5min, 34.1P0.1, 45.4P1) fps ∼10%
95 (23min, 23.4P0.1, 35.9P1) fps ∼10%
89.4 (23.1min, 26.7P0.1, 39.9P1) fps ∼10%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
95 (34.7min, 37.7P0.1, 64.3P1) fps ∼10%
92.5 (35.9min, 53.9P0.1, 61.6P1) fps ∼8%
81.2 (34.8min, 46.2P0.1, 55.9P1) fps ∼9%
75.8 (26.2min, 33.6P0.1, 52.9P1) fps ∼8%
AMD Radeon RX 6800M, R9 5900HX
Asus ROG Strix G15
76 (16.1min, 19.3P0.1, 41.2P1) fps ∼8%
74.2 (28.9min, 33.4P0.1, 44.5P1) fps ∼7%
63.7 (22.3min, 32.4P0.1, 42P1) fps ∼7%
58.3 (24.6min, 26.8P0.1, 38.9P1) fps ∼7%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-12700H
Lenovo Legion 5 Pro
76.1 (29.9min, 30.4P0.1, 33.6P1) fps ∼8%
73.6 (24.8min, 27.5P0.1, 32P1) fps ∼7%
64.7 (20.9min, 23.2P0.1, 30.7P1) fps ∼7%
57.5 (19.5min, 24.8P0.1, 29.3P1) fps ∼6%
AMD Radeon RX 6600M, R7 5800H
Lenovo Legion 5
61.5 (13.9min, 14.9P0.1, 39.2P1) fps ∼7%
58.4 (24.6min, 25.5P0.1, 38.7P1) fps ∼5%
49 (23.3min, 26.1P0.1, 32.9P1) fps ∼5%
44 (22.1min, 25.2P0.1, 31.6P1) fps ∼5%

QHD (2,560 x 1,440)

The game becomes semi-demanding at 2,560 x 1,440. You should have at least a modest high-end GPU, such as the Radeon RX 6800M, if you want to run the game at this resolution.

Dead Space Remake
    2560x1440 Ultra Preset AA:T
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
96.4 (25.8min, 40.9P0.1, 63.9P1) fps ∼12%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
72.1 (34min, 44P0.1, 50.4P1) fps ∼9%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900HX
MSI Titan GT77 12UHS
60 (20.8min, 21.6P0.1, 24.3P1) fps ∼7%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
52 (23.1min, 28.4P0.1, 37.8P1) fps ∼6%
AMD Radeon RX 6800M, R9 5900HX
Asus ROG Strix G15
41.2 (28.5min, 28.9P0.1, 30.8P1) fps ∼5%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-12700H
Lenovo Legion 5 Pro
37.6 (19.8min, 19.9P0.1, 21.7P1) fps ∼5%
AMD Radeon RX 6600M, R7 5800H
Lenovo Legion 5
28.7 (17.3min, 18.6P0.1, 22.6P1) fps ∼3%

UHD (3,840 x 2,160)

All the laptop GPUs we had at the time of the review were overwhelmed by the game at 4K and max settings. Even a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop was unable to cross the 40-fps mark. A desktop with an absolutely high-end GPU (e.g. Radeon RX 7900 XTX) is required to run the game at these settings.

Dead Space Remake
    3840x2160 Ultra Preset AA:T
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
53 (24.6min, 24.8P0.1, 37.9P1) fps ∼9%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
39.1 (21.5min, 24P0.1, 31.8P1) fps ∼6%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900HX
MSI Titan GT77 12UHS
32 (19min, 19P0.1, 20.4P1) fps ∼5%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-12900K
Desktop-PC
24.9 (16.3min, 16.3P0.1, 16.9P1) fps ∼4%
AMD Radeon RX 6800M, R9 5900HX
Asus ROG Strix G15
21.5 (13.5min, 14P0.1, 17.5P1) fps ∼4%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-12700H
Lenovo Legion 5 Pro
12.9 (9.78min, 9.99P0.1, 10.8P1) fps ∼2%
AMD Radeon RX 6600M, R7 5800H
Lenovo Legion 5
8.66 (6.15min, 6.34P0.1, 7.42P1) fps ∼1%

Note

Because gaming tests are very time-consuming and are often constrained by installation or activation limits, we are only able to provide you with part of the benchmark results at the time of publishing this article. We will be adding more graphics cards over the coming days and weeks.

Overview

Show Restrictions
PosModel< PrevNext >Dead Space Remake
 Dead Space Remake (2023)
low
1920x1080
Low Preset
TAA
med.
1920x1080
Medium Preset
TAA
high
1920x1080
High Preset
TAA
ultra
1920x1080
Ultra Preset
TAA
QHD
2560x1440
Ultra Preset
TAA
4K
3840x2160
Ultra Preset
TAA
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
266n5
265n5
246n5
248n5
199.3n5
106.5n5
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
190.75n2
185.35n2
165.1n2
163.55n2
122n2
66n2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
235n2
227n2
199.2n2
197.65n2
137.6n2
67.8n2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
207
187.5
186.4
133.7
68.2
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
143.9
139.1
126.5
119.5
91.5
52.8
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
202
195.3
169.8
169.7
112.6
54.3
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
153.6n2
150.2n2
133.9n2
134n2
96.7n2
49.3n2
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
208
193.6
167.6
167
116.9
57.7
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
150.2n2
145.85n2
136.15n2
134.9n2
102.8n2
54.6n2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
175.6n2
168.8n2
147.4n2
147.65n2
102.5n2
54.35n2
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
182.8
173.3
150.4
148.3
99.8
50.5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU
121.5
113.3
109.3
81.8
41.3
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
124.8
121.7
107
100.9
72.1
39.1
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
167.7
159.2
139.5
136.7
89.4
44.8
AMD Radeon RX 6800
150.5
143.5
123.2
122.6
83.6
42.5
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
133.4
129.4
110.9
111.8
75
36.2
NVIDIA Titan RTX
126.8
123.75n2
111.3
74.7
39.3
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16G
129.5
123.5
105.6
104.7
65.2
31.8
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8G
126.6n3
122.9n3
105.9n3
105.4n3
64.8n3
32.1n2
PosModel< PrevNext >Dead Space Remake
low med. high ultra QHD 4K
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU
109.3
108.3
95
89.4
60
32
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
100.9n3
95.7n3
85.3n3
82.4n3
53.1n3
26
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
95
92.5
81.2
75.8
52
24.9
AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT
100.1
93.7
79.4
78.5
53.3
27.1
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
109.9
86.2
104.4
87
57.9
28.7
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU
88.6
85.6
74.7
73.6
51.1
26.7
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
88.1n2
85.65n2
75n2
75.55n2
51.5n2
28.3n2
Intel Arc A770
79.2
76
69.5
67.7
48.8
26.5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
94.6
91.4
77.8
77.2
49.5
AMD Radeon RX 7600
85.8
81.4
69.1
69.3
45.5
18.4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU
82.1
74.6
68.1
66.8
47.2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
75.65n2
72.1n2
62.4n2
67n3
43.95n2
20.6
AMD Radeon RX 6800M
76
74.2
63.7
58.3
41.2
21.5
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
93.8
88.9
72.5
72.3
45.6
18.4
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
87.7
83.9
73.3
73.6
53.8
27.5
AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT
80.6
67.2
65.9
77.1
44.2
12.3
Intel Arc A750
70.8
71.2
63.9
63.8
44.7
16.7
NVIDIA Titan X Pascal
74.4
70.7
38.7
59.35n2
19.7
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super (Desktop)
94
88.9
76.8
74.8
50.8
26
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (Desktop)
86.1
81.8
69.1
69
46.3
22.4
PosModel< PrevNext >Dead Space Remake
low med. high ultra QHD 4K
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
72.65n2
70.05n2
61.85n2
55.75n2
37.6
12.9
AMD Radeon RX 7600S
62.2
52.6
52.3
34.8
11.3
Intel Arc A580
65.7
63.5
58.3
57.6
40.4
17.3
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super (Desktop)
79.4
75.3
66
64.8
42.6
22
Intel Arc A770M
42.2
49.2
46.2
54.1
24.4
15.8
AMD Radeon RX 6600
68.1
64
52.9
52.8
33.9
14.7
AMD Radeon RX 5700 (Desktop)
75.6
71.1
60.8
60.5
40.7
19.4
AMD Radeon RX 6600M
66.5n3
62.8n3
52.6n3
51.9n3
32.6n3
9.86n3
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
59.6
57
50.1
48.5
32
16.1
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (Desktop)
71.7
67.9
57.2
56.9
38.1
14.5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super (Desktop)
57.5
53.7
46.9
46.3
30.3
14.3
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
33.9
27.7
21.9
17.5
8.92
2.14
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (Desktop)
46.6
44.7
37.1
37.4
24.9
11.5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
57.45n2
55.85n2
47.6n2
46.9n2
30.05n2
17
Intel Arc A730M
51.3n2
49.35n2
45.2n2
43.7n2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
50.7
47.1
40.4
39.8
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU
37.2
35.1
28.2
24.6
9.81
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (Desktop)
51.7n2
48.4n2
42.1n2
41.8n2
27n2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (Desktop)
46.5
41.9
32.9
30.3
5.23
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU
35.2
23.2
20.7
17.6
PosModel< PrevNext >Dead Space Remake
low med. high ultra QHD 4K
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
25.3
23.1
19.7
19.6
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile
34.3
23.2
22.9
21.8
Intel Arc A370M
22.6
17.8
12.1
8.86
AMD Radeon RX 5500M
24.2
21.9
16.4
14
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
35.9n2
29.2n2
23.2n2
19.95n2
7.4
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
31.3
25.6
21.8
15
Intel Arc A380
29.9
29
25.3
25.2
AMD Radeon 780M
23.6
22.5
18.7
17.7
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
15.1
13.4
10.8
10.7
AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
15.2
10.8
9.5
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs
12.7
12.3
10.7
10.7
NVIDIA GeForce MX350
8.88
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)
3.69
NVIDIA GeForce MX250
7.93
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs
8.26
Intel UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen)
11.7
Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)
7.53
AMD Radeon RX Vega 10
8.35
Intel UHD Graphics Xe 32EUs (Tiger Lake-H)
7.77
Intel UHD Graphics 770
7.79
PosModel< PrevNext >Dead Space Remake
low med. high ultra QHD 4K
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
10.5
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
9.87
9.12
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
8.17
Intel UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H)
3.53
Intel UHD Graphics 620
3.67
AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
3.83
(-) * 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.
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.

Test systems

Device Graphics card Processor RAM Operating system
Laptops
MSI Titan GT77 12UHS Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti @175 W TGP (16 GB GDDR6) Intel Core i9-12900 2 x 16 GB DDR5 Windows 11
Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 @140 W TGP (6 GB GDDR6) Intel Core i7-12700H 2 x 8 GB DDR5 Windows 11
Asus ROG Strix G15 AMD Radeon RX 6800M (12 GB GDDR6) AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 2 x 8 GB DDR4 Windows 11
Lenovo Legion 5 AMD Radeon RX 6600M (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 2 x 8 GB DDR4 Windows 11
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 AMD Radeon 680M AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS 2 x 16 GB DDR5 Windows 11
Desktop PCs
Custom I AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24 GB GDDR6)
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB GDDR6X)
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 (8 GB GDDR6)
Intel Core i9-12900K 2 x 16 GB DDR4 Windows 11
Custom II Palit GeForce RTX 4090 GameRock OC (24 GB GDDR6X)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 FE (24 GB GDDR6X)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8 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)
AMD Radeon RX 6800 (16 GB DDR6)
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12 GB DDR6)
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT (8 GB GDDR6)
AMD Radeon RX 6600 (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 7950X 2 x 16 GB DDR5 Windows 11
Custom III Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super FE Intel Core i9-11900K 2 x 8 GB DDR4 Windows 11
Mini PCs
Zotac ZBOX CI665 Nano Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96 CUs) Intel Core i7-1165G7 2 x 8 GB DDR4 Windows 11
Morefine S500+ AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 2 x 16 GB DDR4 Windows 11
Minisforum NUCXi7 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 @125 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6) Intel Core i7-11800H 2 x 8 GB DDR4 Windows 11
Minisforum HX90G AMD Radeon RX 6600M @100 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 2 x 16 GB DDR4 Windows 11
4K monitors Nvidia driver AMD driver
Asus PB287Q, Philips Brilliance 329P9H, Gigabyte M32U ForceWare 528.02 Adrenalin 22.11.2
Read all 10 comments / answer
static version load dynamic
Loading Comments
Comment on this article
Please share our article, every link counts!
> Expert Reviews and News on Laptops, Smartphones and Tech Innovations > Reviews > Dead Space Remake review: Laptop and desktop benchmarks
Florian Glaser, 2023-02- 1 (Update: 2023-02- 1)